Crushing can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| crushing - physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing" | ||
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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| crushing - The action of the verb to crush. | ||
| crushing - A former method of execution. |
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| 1. | adj. | A crushing blow. | |
| 2. | adj. | A crushing rejection. | |
| 3. | adj. | Bone-crushing. | |
| 4. | verb | it runs you about 4 bucks and it deals crushing blows to hunger. | |
| 5. | verb | "If it's a light workout, OK." "Right, so will we allow crotch-kicking and eyeball crushing?" | |
| 6. | verb | The weight of the world is a dangerous thing to try to bear. Take only a small fraction, and the rest of it will soon follow - crushing you. | |
| 7. | verb | Tom's team suffered a crushing defeat. | |
| 8. | verb | Michael Clarke has conceded that his men appear not to have learnt from their crushing defeat. | |
| 9. | verb | Roger Federer is one of the few tennis players to have both delivered and suffered a crushing defeat in a Grand Slam final. He double-bagelled Lleyton Hewitt in the 2004 US Open final and himself got bagelled and breadsticked by Rafael Nadal in the 2008 French Open final. | |
| 10. | verb | I am not crushing them. | |
| 11. | verb | It's crushing me. | |
| 12. | verb | Step Lightly. Most rocks are covered with living animals and plants. Step carefully to avoid crushing them. | |
| 13. | verb | A small bug bit me on the arm because I was accidentally crushing it. | |
| 14. | verb | In general the physical and mental form of conscious beings is an expression of the character of the planet on which they live. On certain very large and aqueous planets, for instance, we found that civilization had been achieved by marine organisms. On these huge globes no land-dwellers as large as a man could possibly thrive, for gravitation would have nailed them to the ground. But in the water there was no such limitation to bulk. One peculiarity of these big worlds was that, owing to the crushing action of gravitation, there were seldom any great elevations and depressions in their surface. Thus they were usually covered by a shallow ocean, broken here and there by archipelagos of small, low islands. | |
| 15. | verb | The best olive oil was produced by crushing olives in a mortar with a pestle. | |
| 16. | verb | Crush an aluminum can. | |
| 17. | verb | I wish people would stop saying things in ways that crush young dreams. | |
| 18. | verb | Crush the can before you throw it away. |
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| adj. | |
| A crushing blow. |
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| A crushing rejection. |
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| Bone-crushing. |
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| verb | |
| it runs you about 4 bucks and it deals crushing blows to hunger. |
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| "If it's a light workout, OK." "Right, so will we allow crotch-kicking and eyeball crushing?" | |
| The weight of the world is a dangerous thing to try to bear. Take only a small fraction, and the rest of it will soon follow - crushing you. | |
| Tom's team suffered a crushing defeat. | |
| Michael Clarke has conceded that his men appear not to have learnt from their crushing defeat. | |
| Roger Federer is one of the few tennis players to have both delivered and suffered a crushing defeat in a Grand Slam final. He double-bagelled Lleyton Hewitt in the 2004 US Open final and himself got bagelled and breadsticked by Rafael Nadal in the 2008 French Open final. | |
| I am not crushing them. | |
| It's crushing me. | |
| Step Lightly. Most rocks are covered with living animals and plants. Step carefully to avoid crushing them. | |
| A small bug bit me on the arm because I was accidentally crushing it. | |
| In general the physical and mental form of conscious beings is an expression of the character of the planet on which they live. On certain very large and aqueous planets, for instance, we found that civilization had been achieved by marine organisms. On these huge globes no land-dwellers as large as a man could possibly thrive, for gravitation would have nailed them to the ground. But in the water there was no such limitation to bulk. One peculiarity of these big worlds was that, owing to the crushing action of gravitation, there were seldom any great elevations and depressions in their surface. Thus they were usually covered by a shallow ocean, broken here and there by archipelagos of small, low islands. | |
| The best olive oil was produced by crushing olives in a mortar with a pestle. | |
| 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. | |