1. crush(n = noun.substance) crushed leather - leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated;
is a kind of leather
2. crush(n = noun.group) jam, press - a dense crowd of people;
is a kind of crowd
has particulars: snarl-up, traffic jam
3. crush(n = noun.feeling) calf love, infatuation, puppy love - temporary love of an adolescent;
is a kind of love
4. crush(n = noun.act) compaction, crunch - the act of crushing;
is a kind of compressing, compression
has particulars: grind, mill, pulverisation, pulverization
Derived forms verb crush4, verb crush2
1. crush(v = verb.social) oppress, suppress - come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
Derived form noun crushing1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody
2. crush(v = verb.contact) mash, squash, squeeze, squelch - to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
is one way to press
Derived forms noun crush4, noun crusher1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
3. crush(v = verb.competition) beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish - 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"
is one way to defeat, get the better of, overcome
Sample sentences:
The fighter managed to crush his opponent
4. crush(v = verb.change) - break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy"
is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize
Derived forms noun crush4, noun crusher1
Sample sentences:
They crush the glass tubes
5. crush(v = verb.emotion) demolish, smash - humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
is one way to abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify
Sample sentences:
The bad news will crush him
6. crush(v = verb.contact) jam - crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
is one way to bruise, contuse
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
7. crush(v = verb.competition) break down - make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
8. crush(v = verb.change) - become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
is one way to break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up
Sample sentences:
The glass tubes crush
1. 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; as, to crush grapes. [1913 Webster]
"Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut." [1913 Webster]
"The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall." [1913 Webster]
2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz. [1913 Webster]
3. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight. [1913 Webster]
"To crush the pillars which the pile sustain." [1913 Webster]
"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again." [1913 Webster]
4. To oppress or burden grievously. [1913 Webster]
"Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway." [1913 Webster]
5. To overcome completely; to subdue totally. [1913 Webster]
"Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels." [1913 Webster]
6. to subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch. [PJC]
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily. [1913 Webster]
1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. [1913 Webster]
"The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds." [1913 Webster]
2. Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception. [1913 Webster]
"Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night." [1913 Webster]
crush, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 compress with force or violence, so as to break, bruise, etc.
2 reduce to powder by pressure.
3 crease or crumple by rough handling.
4 defeat or subdue completely (crushed by my reply).
--n.
1 an act of crushing.
2 a crowded mass of people.
3 a drink made from the juice of crushed fruit.
4 colloq. a (usu. foll. by on) a (usu. passing) infatuation. b the object of an infatuation (who's the latest crush?).
Idiom:
crush bar a place in a theatre for audiences to buy drinks in the intervals. crush barrier a barrier, esp. a temporary one, for restraining a crowd.
Derivative:
crushable adj. crusher n. crushingly adv.
Etymology:
ME f. AF crussir, corussier, OF croissir, cruissir, gnash (teeth), crack, f. Rmc
N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.
VB become small, become smaller, lessen, decrease, grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb, decay, be smaller than, fall short of, not come up to, render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate, boil down, constrict, constringe, condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow, pinch, tighten, strangle, cramp, dwarf, bedwarf, shorten, circumscribe, restrain, (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.
VB be humble, deign, vouchsafe, condescend, humble oneself, demean oneself, stoop, stoop to conquer, carry coals, submit, submit with a good grace, yield the palm, lower one's tone, lower one's note, sing small, draw in one's horns, sober down, hide one's face, hide one's diminished head, not dare to show one's face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself, feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace, drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs, blush for, blush up to the eves, redden, change color, color up, hang one's head, look foolish, feel small, render humble, humble, humiliate, let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down, snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb, teach one his distance, put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower, throw into the shade, cast into the shade, stare out of countenance, put out of countenance, put to the blush, confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush, send away with a flea in one's ear, get a setdown.
VB come to dust, be disintegrated, be reduced to powder reduce to powder, grind to powder, pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate, scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise, contuse, contund, beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate, attenuate.
VB be disappointed, look blank, look blue, look aghast, stand aghast, find to one's cost, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth, find one a false prophet, not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation, disappoint, frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure), crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage, balk, jilt, bilk, play one false, play a trick, dash the cup from the lips, tantalize, dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish).