Crush definition

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To hug, especially with great force.
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To crumple or rumple.

Crushed the freshly ironed shirt.

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To press upon, shove, or crowd.
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To press, grind, or pound into small particles or into powder.
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To hit or propel with great force.

A swing of the bat that crushed a fastball over the wall.

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To extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing.

Crush juice from a grape.

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The act of crushing or the pressure involved in crushing.

Matter superheated by the crush of gravity around black holes.

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A substance prepared by or as if by crushing, especially a fruit drink.

Orange crush.

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To press between two opposing forces so as to break or injure; put out of shape or condition by pressure; squeeze together; crumple.
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To subdue or suppress by or as by force; overwhelm.
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To be or become crushed.
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A crushing; severe pressure.
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(informal) An infatuation.
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A great crowd.

A crush of spectators.

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To oppress harshly.
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To force out or extract by pressing or squeezing.
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To press forward; crowd (into, against, etc.)
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A crowded mass, esp. of people.
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To crush is defined as to press hard enough to injure, break into small pieces or beat down emotionally.

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.

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The definition of a crush is a temporary infatuation with another person.

An example of crush is two elementary school kids being boyfriend and girlfriend.

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To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure.

The falling rock crushed the car.

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To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.
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To put down with force; subdue.

The regime crushed the rebellion.

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To overwhelm or oppress severely.

Spirits that had been crushed by rejection and failure.

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To defeat overwhelmingly.

Our team was crushed in the playoffs.

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To be or become crushed.

Aluminum cans crush easily.

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To proceed or move by crowding or pressing.

The fans crushed forward to get a glimpse of the movie star.

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A usually temporary infatuation.

Had a crush on her friend's cousin.

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One who is the object of such an infatuation.
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Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.
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A short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation; the object of this infatuation.
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A violent crowding.
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A crowd control barrier.
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A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
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A party, festive function.
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(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar. The season that this process takes place in.
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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 crush grapes.

Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, crushed, broken or cut. --Lev. xxii.

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To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.

To crush quartz.

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To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections.

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To oppress or burden grievously.
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To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.

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(intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force.

An eggshell crushes easily.

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To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.

She's crushing on him.

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(sports) To defeat emphatically.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
crush
Plural:
crushes

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.

    From Wiktionary

Crush Sentence Examples

  • I had an awful crush on him when we were in high school.

  • Why crush his ego?

  • We've gotta crush this before it wipes us all out.

  • She gripped him around the waist, wishing she could crush the breath from him.

  • Lori always did have a way with Josh, even back when they were kids and she had a monstrous crush on him.

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