mash

1. 1.

   a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing

   Broadersuspension

   Narrowersour mash
2. 2.

   mixture of ground animal feeds

   Broaderfeed

   Narrowerchicken feed

Other forms of mash

plural

mashes·

past tense

mashed·

present participle

mashing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mash

What does mash mean?

mash means "to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mash?

mash has 1 syllable: mash. In IPA it is /ˈmæʃ/.

What is another word for mash?

Close synonyms include squash, crush, squelch, squeeze, chat up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mash a common word?

mash is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mash?

1 word rhymes with mash. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.