How to pronounce “mash”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (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.
• (chiefly UK) Mashed potatoes.
• A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
• (obsolete) A mess; trouble.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
• (transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.
• (transitive, UK, chiefly Northern England, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
• (ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).
• (transitive, Southern US, informal) To press. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
• (intransitive, archaic) To act violently.
• (transitive, informal, gaming) To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.

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