squeeze out

verb

squeezed out; squeezing out; squeezes out

transitive verb

: to force out of a position, place, etc.

a small local restaurant squeezed out by a fast-food chain

Examples of squeeze out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Meanwhile Beirut, caught between its adversary Israel and a powerful armed domestic group in Hezbollah, risks being squeezed out, an expert argued. —Semafor Events, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026

Why Chicken Becomes Tough When chicken cooks, its muscle fibers tighten, squeezing out moisture. —Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026

To dry, place the jacket on a large towel and roll it to squeeze out excess water. —Katie Cloyd, Martha Stewart, 22 Apr. 2026

Our tests of the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H on the new Dell XPS 14 laptop squeezed out 21 hours of battery life, close to the M5 MacBook Pro, which ran for 24 hours. —Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for squeeze out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout

Legal Definition

squeezeout

noun

squeeze·​out

ˈskwēz-ˌau̇t

: a corporate action or series of actions (as a refusal to declare dividends or the restricting of decision-making power in corporate governance) through which majority shareholders deprive minority shareholders of the benefit of stock ownership usually as part of an attempt to force sale of minority shares compare freezeout

Note: Freezeout and squeezeout are sometimes used as synonyms.