mashes

Squashes into pulp

Mashes is the plural of mash—a soft, pulpy mixture created by crushing or grinding.

In cooking, mashes typically means mashed potatoes: The pub serves bangers and mashes.

In brewing, mashes are batches of grain steeped in hot water to extract fermentable sugars.

The verb form means crushes into pulp or presses amourously: She mashes the potatoes, He mashes on every girl at the party.

crush

pulverize

Crush to powder

  • grindCrush into particles
  • pestleBowl's crushing companion
  • mortarGrinding bowl or binder

pound · squash · squeeze · press · compress · flatten · trample · stomp · pummel · crush

cooking

puree

Smoothly blended food

simmer · seasoning · recipe · kitchen · chef · culinary · ingredients · flavor · garnish · mixer

brewing

grain

Cereal plant's harvest unit

steep · brewing · beer · whiskey · distilling · enzymes · sugars · hops · yeast · homebrew

music

remix

Altered version of recording

  • mashupCombined creative fusion
  • samplingExtracting subset for study
  • DJMusic mixer performer

beat · track · blend · medley · bootleg · splice · overlay · mix · audio · producer

potatoes

tubers

Underground plant storage organs

sweet potato · spuds · lumpy · creamy · buttery · gravy · bangers · shepherd's pie · colcannon · champ

Opposites
food preparation method

mashesslices

Thin cut portions

dices · chops · cubes · julienne · minces

physical action on objects

mashesseparates

Divides into portions

divides · cuts · preserves · maintains · assembles

physical integrity

mashespreserves

Cooked fruit in sugar

solidifies · maintains · hardens · sets · shapes

Phrases
Family

smash, mash, smashed, mashed, smashing, mashing, masher, mashers, smasher

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G