crush in English dictionary

  • crush

    Meanings and definitions of "crush"

    • A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
    • Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.
    • A short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation; the object of this infatuation.
    • A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling
    • A party, festive function
    • 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.
    • To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
    • To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
    • To oppress or burden grievously.
    • To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
    • (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
    • To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
    • noun
      A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
    • noun
      Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
    • noun
      Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
    • noun
      A violent crowding
    • noun
      A crowd control barrier
    • noun
      An infatuation or affection for.
    • noun
      The human object of such infatuation or affection.
    • noun
      A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling
    • noun
      A party, festive function
    • noun
      (Australia)
      The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes place in.
    • 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.
    • verb
      To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
    • verb
      To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
    • verb
      To oppress or burden grievously.
    • verb
      To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
    • verb
      To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
    • verb
      (sports)
      to defeat emphatically
    • 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
    • a violent collision or compression
    • violent pressure, as of a crowd
    • a short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation
    • to press or bruise between two hard bodies
    • to reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding
    • to overwhelm by pressure or weight
    • to oppress or burden grievously
    • to overcome completely
    • to be or become broken down or in
    • To push or press something into a small confined space
    • to break something into small pieces by pressing it flat, or grinding it to powder
    • A drink made from fruit juice.
    • A strong feeling of love, often for just a short time, usually by an adolescent.
    • To destroy somebody's confidence or happiness.
    • A crowd of people pressed close together in a small space.
    • To defeat an opponent overwhelmingly, using great force or violence.
    • To end in success a struggle or contest.
    • To tighten (something) so strongly that it loses the form and the original consistency
    • crush (with one’s hands)
    • noun
      a dense crowd of people
    • noun
      leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
    • noun
      temporary love of an adolescent
    • noun
      the act of crushing
    • verb
      become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
    • verb
      break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy"
    • verb
      come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
    • verb
      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"
    • verb
      crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
    • verb
      humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
    • verb
      make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
    • verb
      to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"

    Synonyms of "crush" in English dictionary

    fragmentise, beat out, separate are the top synonyms of "crush" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of crush

    • crush ( third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)
    • crush ( plural  crushes)
    • crush (plural crushes)
    • crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)
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