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crush
/kɹʌʃ/
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What does crush mean?
noun
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- A violent crowding.
More meanings (21)
noun
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- (slang) A group or gang.
- A crowd control barrier.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- (informal) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
- (dated) A party or festive function.
verb
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- (figuratively) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- (figuratively) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
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IPA pronunciation
/kɹʌʃ/
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You have deceived our trust, And made us doff our easy robes of peace, To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
His only idea was to batter the life out of the man before him, to crush and annihilate him upon the instant.
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He little knew how far that iron grasp could reach, or how soon it was to close upon them and crush them.
Then they refused to pay patent-right for the use of his machines, and combined to crush him in the courts of law.
Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves.