different between squashed vs squasher

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

squashed (comparative more squashed, superlative most squashed)

1. squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp
   • 1855-57, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

     Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking-sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair.

2. suppressed or silenced

Verb

squashed

1. simple past tense and past participle of squash
   • 2001, Jon Brasher, The Color of Moonlight (page 37)

     He dropped his cigarette on the sidewalk, shaking his head as he squashed the butt out with the heel of his shoe.

English

Etymology

squash +? -er

Noun

squasher (plural squashers)

1. One who, or that which, squashes.
   • 1996, T William Boxx, Gary M Quinlivan, Culture in crisis and the renewal of civil life

     It is in this sense that television, the great reducer, the great squasher of high hearts and innocence, is a depressing cultural voice.

   • 2009, Sigrid Schmalzer, The People's Peking Man (page 81)

     Whatever their feelings about the state's heavy-handed blows on idealist scientific writings, they appear to have remained committed to their roles as squashers of superstition.

Anagrams

• quashers