Crush definition
Crushed the freshly ironed shirt.
A swing of the bat that crushed a fastball over the wall.
Crush juice from a grape.
Matter superheated by the crush of gravity around black holes.
Orange crush.
A crush of spectators.
An example of to crush is opening an almond with a nut cracker.
An example of to crush is a father telling his son he'll never amount to anything.
An example of crush is two elementary school kids being boyfriend and girlfriend.
The falling rock crushed the car.
The regime crushed the rebellion.
Spirits that had been crushed by rejection and failure.
Our team was crushed in the playoffs.
Aluminum cans crush easily.
The fans crushed forward to get a glimpse of the movie star.
Had a crush on her friend's cousin.
The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
An eggshell crushes easily.
She's crushing on him.
Origin of crush
- Middle English crushen from Old French croissir of Germanic origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English cruschen, crousshen, Old French cruisir, croissir, from Late Latin *cruscio, from Frankish *krostjan. Akin to Gothic (kruistan, “to gnash”), Old Swedish krusa, krosa "to crush", Middle Low German krossen (“to break”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste, Icelandic kreysta.
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