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Definition of mash : 1. A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically ( 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.
2. A mesh.
3. A mess; trouble.
4. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
5. To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically ( Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.

Synonyms:

rack, wring, embrace, extort, womanize, trounce, contract, drudge, coquet, beat out, demolish, smash, brewery, squish, crackle, chip, splash, pinch, twitch, quench, thrust, suppress, draft, constrict, dig, blanch, labour, munch, shell, crisp, toil, butcher, squelch, dawdle, compact, romance, coquette, slosh, twinge, corn, cranch, stuff, hee-haw, bake, butterfly, chat up, philander, break down, grate, slop, microbrewery, freshen, latke, comminute, infatuation, flirt, carve, cud, bone, jigger, squeeze, court, woo, travail, forage, gouge, scranch, feedbag, butter, quell, baked potato, dally, womanise, coerce, birdseed, tweet, fries, splosh, brewer, force, shove, hug, butchery, pressure, bray, oppress, beat, compress, scraunch, bone meal, toy, chill, press, crunch, solicit, craunch, passion, wedge, help, hale, trifle, labor, fishmeal, grind, jam, French fries, hash browns, dog biscuit, jacket potato, fodder, home fries, bosom, head, moil, pour out, play, vanquish

combine, bran mash, feed, decoct, intermix, infuse, poultice, merge, chicken feed, concoct, mingle, sponge, batter, dough, pap

crush, bruise, squash, pulp

pulpiness, mush, squashiness

composite, emulsion, blending, mongrel, combination, conglomeration, amalgam, infusion, blend, stew, admixture, concoction, amalgamate, bastard, paste, meld, composition, potpourri, elixir, intermixture, compound, medley, decoction, alloy, commixture, brew, merger, mix, interfusion, hybrid, mixture

Usage examples:

• Mash them soft with a spoon, put them in a bag, and squeeze out the juice. - "Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry Cakes, and Sweetmeats", Miss Leslie.
• When the birds are fed scratch grain, as indicated, they will naturally eat enough mash from the open hoppers to meet their requirements. - "Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry", Pratt Food Co..
• If we only knowed when dey don't stands right under him, we would shove off de end off and let him drop onto dem and mash 'em all! - "The Lost Trail", Edward S. Ellis.