| musquash | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: muskrat, Ondatra zibethica |
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| quasar | (noun) a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts | Synonyms: quasi-stellar radio source |
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| quash | (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, void |
| quasi | (adjective) having some resemblance | - |
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| quasiparticle | (noun) a quantum of energy (in a crystal lattice or other system) that has position and momentum and can in some respects be regarded as a particle | - |
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| quassia | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: bitterwood, Quassia amara |
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| (noun) a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma | - |
| squash | (noun) a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets | Synonyms: squash rackets, squash racquets |
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| (noun) edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable | - |
| (noun) any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits | Synonyms: squash vine |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squeeze, squelch |
| squashed | (adjective) that has been violently compressed | - |
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| squashy | (adjective) like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness | Synonyms: pulpy |
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| (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, spongy, squishy |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged |