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   mash

   /maʃ/

   verb

   • 1. reduce (food or other substance) to a soft mass by crushing it: "mash the beans to a paste"
   • ▪ crush or smash (something) to a pulp: "he almost had his head mashed by a slamming door"
   • ▪ press forcefully on (something): informal US, West Indian "the worst thing you can do is mash the brake pedal"
   • 2. (in brewing) mix (powdered malt) with hot water to form wort: "the barley is dried out over peat fires and mashed with water which flows through peat ground"
   • 3. (with reference to tea) brew or infuse: Northern English "I've just mashed a pot of tea"

   noun

   • 1. a soft mass made by crushing a substance into a pulp, sometimes with the addition of liquid: "pound the garlic to a mash"
   • ▪ mashed potato: "for supper there was sausages and mash"
   • ▪ bran mixed with hot water, given as a warm food to horses and other animals: "a bucket of mash"
   • ▪ (in brewing) a mixture of powdered malt and hot water, which is left to stand until the sugars dissolve to form the wort: "the brewer now transfers the mash to a mash tun"

   Word Origin Old Englishmāsc (as a brewing term), of West Germanic origin; perhaps ultimately related to mix.

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