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Definition of 'Crush'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) crush
to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.

2.  crush
to pound into small particles, as stone.

3.  crush
to wrinkle or crease.

4.  crush
to force out by pressing or squeezing.

5.  crush
to hug or embrace tightly.

6.  crush
to suppress utterly and often forcibly:
to crush a revolt.

7.  crush
to squelch or humiliate.

8.  crush
to oppress grievously.

9. (v.i.) crush
to become crushed.

10.  crush
to advance forcibly.

11. (n.) crush
the act of crushing or the state of being crushed.

12.  crush
a great crowd; throng.

13.  crush
Informal.

14.  crush
an intense but usu. short-lived infatuation.

15.  crush
the object of such an infatuation.

Etymology: (1300–50; ME cruschen < MF cruisir < Gmc; cf. MLG krossen, early Sw krusa, krosa to crush)

Definition of 'Crush'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) crushed leather, crush
leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

2. (noun) crush, jam, press
a dense crowd of people

3. (noun) puppy love, calf love, crush, infatuation
temporary love of an adolescent

4. (verb) crush, crunch, compaction
the act of crushing

5. (verb) oppress, suppress, crush
come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
"The government oppresses political activists"

6. (verb) squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
"crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"

7. (verb) beat, beat out, crush, 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"

8. (verb) crush
break into small pieces
"The car crushed the toy"

9. (verb) crush, smash, demolish
humiliate or depress completely
"She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"

10. (verb) jam, crush
crush or bruise
"jam a toe"

11. (verb) break down, crush
make ineffective
"Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"

12. (verb) crush
become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
"The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"

Definition of 'Crush'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) crush
to press on sth with force until it is broken or destroyed
a machine for crushing stone; He was crushed by a falling tree.

2. crush
to severely defeat
Reports suggest they are crushing the rebel forces.

3. (noun) crush
a feeling of romantic love
I have a crush on him.

Definition of 'Crush'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Crush
a violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin

2. (noun) Crush
violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception

3. (verb) Crush
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

4. (verb) Crush
to reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz

5. (verb) Crush
to overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight

6. (verb) Crush
to oppress or burden grievously

7. (verb) Crush
to overcome completely; to subdue totally

8. (verb) Crush
to be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily

Translation of 'Crush'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to squash by squeezing together etc The car was crushed between the two trucks.
Afrikaans: verpletter, verbrysel	Arabic: يسْحَق، يَهْرُس	Bulgarian: смачквам (се)
Brazilian: esmagar	Czech: (roz)mačkat	German: zerquetschen
Danish: knuse	Greek: συνθλίβω	Spanish: aplastar
Estonian: puruks muljuma	Farsi: له شدن؛ خرد شدن	Finnish: murskata
French: écraser	Hebrew: לְרָסֵק	Hindi: कुचलना
Croatian: gnječiti, drobiti	Hungarian: összeprésel	Indonesian: meremuk
Icelandic: kremja	Italian: schiacciare	Japanese: 押しつぶす
Korean: 눌러 부수다	Lithuanian: (su)traiškyti, (su)lamdyt	Latvian: saspiest; saberzt
Malay: remuk	Dutch: verpletteren	Norwegian: knuse, klemme, presse (sa
Polish: gnieść	Persian: له شدن؛ خرد شدن	Pashto: ټوټه کول
Portuguese: esmagar	Romanian: a zdrobi	Russian: раздавливать
Slovak: rozmliaždiť	Slovenian: zmečkati	Serbian: smrskati
Swedish: krossa	Thai: บีบอัด	Turkish: ezmek
Taiwanese: 壓碎	Ukrainian: розбивати(ся)	Urdu: کچل ڈالنا، پیس ڈالنا
Vietnamese: đè nát	Chinese: 压碎
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