Crush
[krʌʃ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of crushing.
(noun.) a dense crowd of people.
(verb.) break into small pieces; 'The car crushed the toy'.
(verb.) become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; 'The plastic bottle crushed against the wall'.
(verb.) humiliate or depress completely; 'She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation'; 'The death of her son smashed her'.
Editor: Rebekah--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
(v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
(v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.
(v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
(v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.
(n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
(n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
Inputed by Elvira
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Compress, squeeze, bruise, contuse.[2]. Break, crumble, disintegrate, comminute, bray, CRAZE.[3]. Demolish, break down.[4]. Overpower, overcome, overwhelm, subdue, quell, conquer.
Checker: Sophia
Definition
v.t. to break or bruise: to squeeze together: to beat down or overwhelm: to subdue: to ruin.—v.i. to become broken under pressure.—n. a violet squeezing: a vast crowd of persons or things.—adj. Crushed broken by pressure: subdued: oppressed.—ns. Crush′er he who or that which crushes or subdues: (slang) a policeman; Crush′-hat a hat so constructed as to collapse and become flat: an opera-hat.—adj. Crush′ing bruising: overwhelming.—adv. Crush′ingly.—n. Crush′-room a room in a theatre &c. where the audience may promenade during the intervals of the entertainment.—Crush a cup to empty a cup: to quaff.—Crushed strawberry of the colour of strawberries that have been crushed.
Checked by Edwin
Examples
- Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- If the same scholastic method is in force there, all that would be needed to crush socialism is to show its dogmatic inconsistencies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It directed the latter to be ready to move and to crush Sheridan as soon as he, Longstreet, arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Was he really so superior, and would he crush the poor worms which dared not aspire to his perfections? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the passion of their good intentions they have not hesitated to conceal facts, suppress thought, crush disturbing initiatives and apparently detrimental desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Instead of trying to crush badness we must turn the power behind it to good account. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They wouldn't crush and wither, if you please, sir. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Think twice, you, Micawber, if you don't want to be crushed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And without doubt the lady so crushed with gifts would find them irresistible. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He wondered if she did not begin to see what a powerful engine it was, and how nearly it had crushed her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Long since you ought to have crushed it: now you should blush to allude to it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Grapes, split and crushed under foot, lay about everywhere. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- One of these consists of the crushing and grinding machinery, and the other of the long kilns. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As he saw his mate go down he crouched, and, with a low snarl, sprang upon the captain crushing him to his knees with a single mighty blow. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He had investigated all the crushing-machines on the market, and tried all he could get. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And arterwards, crushing a flowing wine-cup--which I allude to brewing rum and water--we'll pledge one another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am also for the bridge, the man with the flat face and the broken nose said, crushing the end of the cigarette on the table. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The operation of lithotrity, for removing stone from the bladder by crushing the stone, was introduced by Civiale, 1817-1824, who devised successful instruments and modes of using them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Then she raised it to her lips, and crushing it there buried her face in the soft ferns, sobbing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Checker: Rosalind