Crush can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| crush - break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy" | ||
| crush - humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her" | ||
| crush - become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall" | ||
| 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" | ||
| crush - to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" | ||
| crush - come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists" | ||
| crush - make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination" | ||
| crush - crush or bruise; "jam a toe" | ||
Noun |
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| crush - the act of crushing | ||
| crush - a dense crowd of people | ||
| crush - temporary love of an adolescent | ||
| crush - leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated |
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| 1. | verb | Crush an aluminum can. | |
| 2. | verb | I wish people would stop saying things in ways that crush young dreams. | |
| 3. | verb | Crush the can before you throw it away. | |
| 4. | verb | Crush the ginger. | |
| 5. | verb | Where did you crush them? | |
| 6. | verb | No matter how many troops they have or how much firepower they have, we'll crush them if they invade our country. | |
| 7. | verb | Don't stick your fingers behind the door. I might crush them when I close it. | |
| 8. | verb | "Now, to ease thy woes, / since sorrow for his sake hath dimmed thine eyes, / more will I tell, and hidden fates disclose. / He in Italia long shall battle with his foes, / and crush fierce tribes, and milder ways ordain, / and cities build and wield the Latin sway, / till the third summer shall have seen him reign, / and three long winter-seasons passed away / since fierce Rutulia did his arms obey." | |
| 9. | verb | No! he must not die; so she swam toward him all among the drifting beams and planks, quite forgetting that they might crush her. | |
| 10. | verb | I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. | |
| 11. | verb | Sami didn't know how to crush on girls. | |
| 12. | verb | Algeria could crush any terrorist force funded and launched by other nations against it. | |
| 13. | verb | Algeria will crush its enemies. | |
| 14. | verb | "I'm gonna tell her the truth." "You'll crush her." | |
| 15. | verb | As usual, the Kabyle mother will still cry for her injured children, five of whom are in serious condition, one child who has lost an eye, and another child who will never stand up again because both feet had to be amputated after the colonial police decided to drive over him and crush his feet with a military truck. | |
| 16. | noun | Lucy's innocent crush turned into an obsession. | |
| 17. | noun | He had a crush on his Chinese teacher; but what with all the hormones, he had a crush on just about everyone. | |
| 18. | noun | Ursula and Chelsea are battling over the boy they both have a crush on. Judging from the blood and teeth everywhere, this seems to be more of a matter of power than love. | |
| 19. | noun | Tom has a terrible crush on Mary. | |
| 20. | noun | Tom has a crush on Mary. | |
| 21. | noun | Tom had a major crush on Mary. | |
| 22. | noun | Tom had a crush on Mary when he was in junior high school. | |
| 23. | noun | Mary was Tom's high school crush. | |
| 24. | noun | Mary came up to Tom at the party and told him she had a crush on him. | |
| 25. | noun | Mary has a crush on Tom and she wants him to notice her. | |
| 26. | noun | Tom married his high school crush Mary. | |
| 27. | noun | He's got a crush on her. | |
| 28. | noun | He has had a crush on her. | |
| 29. | noun | I do have a crush, but it's not mutual. He already has a lovely wife, anyways. | |
| 30. | noun | Tom has a secret crush on Mary. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| Crush an aluminum can. |
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| I wish people would stop saying things in ways that crush young dreams. | |
| Crush the can before you throw it away. | |
| Crush the ginger. | |
| Where did you crush them? | |
| No matter how many troops they have or how much firepower they have, we'll crush them if they invade our country. | |
| Don't stick your fingers behind the door. I might crush them when I close it. | |
| "Now, to ease thy woes, / since sorrow for his sake hath dimmed thine eyes, / more will I tell, and hidden fates disclose. / He in Italia long shall battle with his foes, / and crush fierce tribes, and milder ways ordain, / and cities build and wield the Latin sway, / till the third summer shall have seen him reign, / and three long winter-seasons passed away / since fierce Rutulia did his arms obey." | |
| No! he must not die; so she swam toward him all among the drifting beams and planks, quite forgetting that they might crush her. | |
| I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. | |
| Sami didn't know how to crush on girls. | |
| Algeria could crush any terrorist force funded and launched by other nations against it. | |
| Algeria will crush its enemies. | |
| "I'm gonna tell her the truth." "You'll crush her." | |
| As usual, the Kabyle mother will still cry for her injured children, five of whom are in serious condition, one child who has lost an eye, and another child who will never stand up again because both feet had to be amputated after the colonial police decided to drive over him and crush his feet with a military truck. | |
| noun | |
| Lucy's innocent crush turned into an obsession. | |
| He had a crush on his Chinese teacher; but what with all the hormones, he had a crush on just about everyone. | |
| Ursula and Chelsea are battling over the boy they both have a crush on. Judging from the blood and teeth everywhere, this seems to be more of a matter of power than love. | |
| Tom has a terrible crush on Mary. | |
| Tom has a crush on Mary. | |
| Tom had a major crush on Mary. | |
| Tom had a crush on Mary when he was in junior high school. | |
| Mary was Tom's high school crush. | |
| Mary came up to Tom at the party and told him she had a crush on him. | |
| Mary has a crush on Tom and she wants him to notice her. | |
| Tom married his high school crush Mary. | |
| He's got a crush on her. | |
| He has had a crush on her. | |
| I do have a crush, but it's not mutual. He already has a lovely wife, anyways. | |
| Tom has a secret crush on Mary. | |