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Crush

verb

(past & past part. crushed; pres. part. crushing)

1.

Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority. Synonyms: oppress, suppress.

2.

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition. Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch. "Squeeze a lemon"

3.

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict. Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish. "We beat the competition" , "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

4.

Break into small pieces.

5.

Humiliate or depress completely. Synonyms: demolish, smash. "The death of her son smashed her"

6.

Crush or bruise. Synonym: jam.

7.

Make ineffective. Synonym: break down.

8.

Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure.

noun

1.

Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated. Synonym: crushed leather.

2.

A dense crowd of people. Synonyms: jam, press.

3.

Temporary love of an adolescent. Synonyms: calf love, infatuation, puppy love.

4.

The act of crushing. Synonyms: compaction, crunch.

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"Crush" Quotes from Famous Books

... centuries ago. Could science; which even in that age had made gigantic strides out of the preceding darkness, have revealed its later miracles, and have presented its terrible powers to the despotism which was seeking to crush all Christendom beneath its feet, the possible result might have been most tragical to humanity. While there are few inventions in morals, the demon Intellect is ever at his work, knowing no fatigue and scorning contentment in his restless ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... leaning in three directions. The weight of its tiled roof threatened at any moment to crush the long-suffering walls to the ground. At one corner stood a great earthen jar, and beside the jar an old hag. She held a gourd to her lips. On some straw in the shade of the ...

— Through stained glass • George Agnew Chamberlain

... district. Full-page advertisements in Sunday newspapers created a golden dream in the public mind concerning the Western Everglades; not one single news item crept into print revealing the truth. Roger realized that for such a power to crush him in a court test would require merely that the machine created for such purpose be set in motion. He realized also that the vicious nature of the desperados whom Garman had placed upon his drained land and the desperate measures which would be ...

— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen

... Harry Bertram, and had lost her,—all I had to lose,—and sought her vainly in long dark caves that had no end, plashing through the water; while the crags beetled above, threatening to fall and crush the poor child. Absorbed in the painful vision, tears rolled down my cheeks. Just then she entered with light step, and full-beaming eye. When she saw me thus, a soft cloud stole over her face, and clothed every feature with a lovelier tenderness than I had seen there before. ...

— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... approached to this mountain of mosquitoes on the prairies of Dakota. To say that they covered the coat of the horse I rode would be to give but a faint idea of their numbers; they were literally six or eight deep upon his skin, and with a single sweep of the hand one could crush myriads from his neck. Their hum seemed to be in all things around. To ride for it was the sole resource. Darkness came quickly down, but the track knew no turn, and for seven miles I kept the pony at a gallop; my face, neck, and hands cut ...

— The Great Lone Land - A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America • W. F. Butler

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