mush
To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something elseTo squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
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» After running ten kilometers, my legs felt like mush.
rul · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
4 sensesTo squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
He mushed the ingredients together.
заме́шиватьzaméšivatʹ
(intransitive)To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
(transitive)To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
(transitive)To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
Examples
5 sentencesAfter running ten kilometers, my legs felt like mush.
The banana turned to mush in the bottom of the bag.
ruБанан на дне сумки превратился в кашу. — marafon
What is this mush?
When you're chewing something you're eating, it gets mushed into a mass called a bolus, which you then swallow.
It's dazzling how a couple of million cells embedded in an electrochemical mush give rise to the gestalt of human consciousness.
deEs ist verblüffend, wie ein paar Millionen in einem elektrochemischen Brei eingebettete Zellen dem menschlichen Bewusstsein Gestalt verleihen. — Yorwba
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulpProbably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”).
Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche (“march”) or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).
Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”).
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Forms
mushes, mushing, mushed, mushedSynonyms
1 synonyms- travel with a dogsled:dogsled
Word family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
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