mush up
to cause to become mushy; to crush into a paste
My baby's food needs to be mushed up before she can eat it.
mush
/mʌʃ/
noun 13verb 4name 2intj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
bottom, cornmeal, different, electrochemical, greenlandic, over, turned
VERB + MUSH
back, experiences, felt, like, part
MUSH + NOUN
beach, bruv, jacksonville, teams
PREP.
in, in, into, into, out, with
ADV.
often
Definitions
noun
1
A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
His food is of the coarsest kind, consisting for the most part of cornmeal mush, which often finds its way from the wooden tray to his mouth in an oyster shell.
2
A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
3
The foam of a breaker.
And Rincon was all about surfing. Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
4
A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
5
A gun.
Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?
verb
1
To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
He mushed the ingredients together.
One must compartmentalize one's life and not let different facets/experiences mush over into one another.
noun
1
A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
2
Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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His food is of the coarsest kind, consisting for the most part of cornmeal mush, which often finds its way from the wooden tray to his mouth in an oyster shell.
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And Rincon was all about surfing. Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
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Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?
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He mushed the ingredients together.
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One must compartmentalize one's life and not let different facets/experiences mush over into one another.
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However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
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