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mash

see also: MASH, Mash

Pronunciation

Noun

mash

(uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
(brewing) Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
Mashed potatoes.
A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
(obsolete) A mess; trouble.

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Verb

mash (mashes, present participle mashing; past and past participle mashed)

(transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
We had fun mashing apples in a mill.
The potatoes need to be mashed.
(transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
(ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).
to mash on a bicycle pedal
(transitive, southern US, informal) To press.
(transitive, UK, mostly, Northern England) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
  He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.
(intransitive, archaic) To act violently.