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Meaning of 'crush' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Crush [ n.]
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
2 . Crush [ 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.
3 . Crush [ 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.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
- To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
- To oppress or burden grievously.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

Meaning of 'crush' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . crush [ v]
Meaning (1):
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Example in sentence:
  • Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship;
  • Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game;
  • We beat the competition
Meaning (2):
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
Example in sentence:
  • crush an aluminum can;
  • squeeze a lemon
Meaning (3):
- crush or bruise
Example in sentence:
  • jam a toe
Meaning (4):
- make ineffective
Example in sentence:
  • Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination
Meaning (5):
- humiliate or depress completely
Example in sentence:
  • She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation;
  • The death of her son smashed her
Meaning (6):
- break into small pieces
Example in sentence:
  • The car crushed the toy
Meaning (7):
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
Example in sentence:
  • The government oppresses political activists
Meaning (8):
- become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
Example in sentence:
  • The plastic bottle crushed against the wall

Nearby Words:

cruces crucial crucian carp cruciate cruciation crucible crucifer cruciferous crucified crucifier

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