squash vs telescope

squash and telescope both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
squash	Yes	No	Yes	No
telescope	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, telescope is a hyponym of squash; that is, telescope is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than squash:

Other hyponyms of squash include wring, stamp, steamroller, tread.

squash (noun)	telescope (noun)
a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets	a magnifier of images of distant objects
edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

squash (verb)	telescope (verb)
to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition	make smaller or shorter
	crush together or collapse