Meaning of squashable | Babel Free
Definitions
- Capable of being squashed.
- Capable of being compressed or squeezed.
- Capable of being forced into submission.
- Permitting a grouping of 2-cells in oppositely oriented identifiable pairs.
Examples
“Seatbelts, airbags, collapsible steering columns, dentable windscreens, squashable fascias and squashable front and rear ends have⟳ all added to safety, but how? To answer⟳ that you will need⟳ to recall⟳ some GCSE physics and learn⟳ more formal ways of expressing it — using equations and graphs.”
“Katherine always tries to squash me, but, you know⟳, I'm not the squashable sort⟳, really." With all my naughtiness; temper, wilfulness, independence, extreme frankness and being whimsical, I listened to reason⟳ and was, in the end⟳, submissive.”
“All other ergodic invariant Radon measures are squashable, and there are infinitely many such measures.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See also
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