Definition of crush Crush
/kɹʌˈʃ/ - [krush] - crush
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NounPlural: crushes |
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| crush - the act of crushing | ||
| crunch, compaction | ||
| compressing, compression applying pressure | ||
| crush - a dense crowd of people | ||
| jam, press | ||
| crowd a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" | ||
| crush - temporary love of an adolescent | ||
| puppy love, calf love, infatuation | ||
| love any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting"; | ||
| crush - leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated | ||
| crushed leather | ||
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| crush - break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy" | ||
| fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up laugh unrestrainedly | ||
| bruise damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure; "The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them" | ||
| crush - humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her" | ||
| smash, demolish | ||
| abase, chagrin, humiliate, humble, mortify cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" | ||
| crush - become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall" | ||
| come apart, fall apart, split up, separate, break lose one's emotional or mental composure; "She fell apart when her only child died" | ||
| crush - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" | ||
| beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish | ||
| win be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" | ||
| get the better of, defeat, overcome win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" | ||
| outscore, outpoint score more points than one's opponents | ||
| walk over beat easily; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship" | ||
| eliminate kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" | ||
| worst, mop up, pip, rack up, whip defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" | ||
| whomp beat overwhelmingly | ||
| get the best, have the best, overcome overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us" | ||
| spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves" | ||
| get the jump be there first; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors" | ||
| chouse, chicane, shaft, jockey, cheat, screw equip with a shaft | ||
| outwit, outfox, outsmart, overreach, circumvent, beat beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" | ||
| outgo, outmatch, outperform, outdo, outstrip, exceed, surmount, surpass get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" | ||
| get over, master, overcome, surmount, subdue to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end; "Let's get this job over with"; "It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task" | ||
| best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" | ||
| outfight to fight better than; get the better of; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans" | ||
| overmaster, overpower, overwhelm overcome by superior force | ||
| checkmate, mate place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" | ||
| immobilise, immobilize cause to be unable to move; "The sudden storm immobilized the traffic" | ||
| outplay excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers" | ||
| drub, clobber, lick, bat, cream, thrash strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" | ||
| crush - to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" | ||
| squash, squelch, mash, squeeze | ||
| press place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure; "pressed flowers" | ||
| wring twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand" | ||
| stamp destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny" | ||
| steamroller overwhelm by using great force; "steamroller the opposition" | ||
| tread brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center | ||
| telescope make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play" | ||
| crush - come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists" | ||
| oppress, suppress | ||
| quash, subjugate, keep down, repress, subdue, reduce make subservient; force to submit or subdue | ||
| crush - make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination" | ||
| break down | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| crush - crush or bruise; "jam a toe" | ||
| jam | ||
| contuse, bruise damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure; "The customer bruised the strawberries by squeezing them" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- crush (Noun)
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. - crush (Noun)
Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception. - crush (Noun)
A short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation; the object of this infatuation. - crush (Noun)
A violent crowding. - crush (Noun)
A crowd control barrier. - crush (Noun)
A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling. - crush (Noun)
A party, festive function. - crush (Verb)
To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass. - crush (Verb)
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute. - crush (Verb)
To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down , as by an incumbent weight. - crush (Verb)
To oppress or burden grievously. - crush (Verb)
To overcome completely; to subdue totally. - crush (Verb)
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force. - crush (Verb)
To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for. - crush (Verb)
To defeat emphatically.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- crush (v. t.)
To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes. - crush (v. t.)
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz. - crush (v. t.)
To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight. - crush (v. t.)
To oppress or burden grievously. - crush (v. t.)
To overcome completely; to subdue totally. - crush (v. i.)
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily. - crush (n.)
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. - crush (n.)
Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To press or squeeze something so hard that it causes damage or deforms the object; to press or squeeze someone so hard that it injures him or her. -
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To push or press something into a small confined space. -
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To break something into small pieces by pressing it flat, or grinding it to powder. -
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To defeat an opponent overwhelmingly, using great force or violence. -
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To destroy somebody's confidence or happiness; to humiliate. -
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A crowd of people pressed close together in a small space. -
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A strong feeling of love, often for just a short time, usually by an adolescent. -
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A drink made from fruit juice. -
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To end in success a struggle or contest. -
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To tighten (something) so strongly that it loses the form and the original consistency
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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crush
krush, v.t. to break or bruise: to squeeze together: to beat down or overwhelm: to subdue: to ruin.—v.i. to become broken under pressure.—n. a violet squeezing: a vast crowd of persons or things.—adj. Crushed, broken by pressure: subdued: oppressed.—ns. Crush′er, he who, or that which, crushes or subdues: (slang) a policeman; Crush′-hat, a hat so constructed as to collapse and become flat: an opera-hat.—adj. Crush′ing, bruising: overwhelming.—adv. Crush′ingly.—n. Crush′-room, a room in a theatre, &c., where the audience may promenade during the intervals of the entertainment.—Crush a cup, to empty a cup: to quaff.—Crushed strawberry, of the colour of strawberries that have been crushed. [O. Fr. croissir; per. cog. with Mid. High Ger. krosen, to crunch.]
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