mush

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any unpleasant thick soft substance, such as food that has been cooked for too long:

If you overcook the cabbage it'll turn to mush.

If you say your brain has turned to mush, it means you cannot think clearly.

If you describe something such as a book or film as mush, you mean that it is too emotional:

The movie was just romantic mush.

to control dogs pulling a vehicle over snow or dry land:

He harnesses his dog team and mushes to the ocean ice.

Some have bred, trained and mushed their own sled dogs.

She only mushed her dogs 15 miles out the highway before turning around.

to crush something, especially cooked food, so it forms a soft mass:

Leave some of the beans whole and mush the rest.

We mushed everything together, then drained some of the water.

to combine different things so that they are not clear and separate:

She's mushed together stories from friends and friends of friends and then made up a story.

any thick, soft substance, such as food that has been boiled too long:

The rain turned the ground into clay and then to mush.