Word Meanings - SCROUGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To crowd; to squeeze.

Related words: (words related to SCROUGE)

• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• SQUEEZE
  1. To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship. 2. Fig.: To oppress with hardships,
• CROWDY
  A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.
• CROWDER
  One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler. "Some blind crowder." Sir P. Sidney.
• SQUEEZER
  1. One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer. A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural. A machine of several forms for the same purpose; -- used
• OVERCROWD
  To crowd too much.