crush
noun
1. leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
Definition categories: substance, leather
2. a dense crowd of people
Definition categories: group, crowd
3. temporary love of an adolescent
Similar word(s): infatuation
Definition categories: feeling, love
4. the act of crushing
Similar word(s): compaction, crunch
Definition categories: act, compressing, compression
Sentences with crush as a noun:
- A crush at a reception.
verb
1. come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
Similar word(s): oppress, suppress
Definition categories: social
2. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- crush an aluminum can
Similar word(s): mash, squash, squeeze, squelch
Definition categories: contact, press
3. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Similar word(s): beat, shell, trounce, vanquish
Definition categories: competition, defeat, overcome
4. break into small pieces
- The car crushed the toy
Definition categories: change, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize
5. humiliate or depress completely
- She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation
Similar word(s): smash
Definition categories: emotion, abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify
6. crush or bruise
Similar word(s): jam
Definition categories: contact, bruise, contuse
7. make ineffective
Definition categories: competition, alter, change, modify
8. become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
- The plastic bottle crushed against the wall
Definition categories: change, break, separate
Sentences with crush as a verb:
- to crush grapes
- Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, crushed, broken or cut. --Lev. xxii.
- to crush quartz
- After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
- The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
- an eggshell crushes easily
- She's crushing on him.