[
UK
/kɹˈʌʃ/
]
[ US /ˈkɹəʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹəʃ/ ]
VERB
-
become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
The plastic bottle crushed against the wall -
crush or bruise
jam a toe -
come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
The government oppresses political activists -
to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
crush an aluminum can
squeeze a lemon -
break into small pieces
The car crushed the toy -
make ineffective
Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination -
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
We beat the competition
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game -
humiliate or depress completely
She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation
The death of her son smashed her
NOUN
- leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- a dense crowd of people
- the act of crushing
- temporary love of an adolescent
How To Use crush In A Sentence
- The pain in his side was crushing, as if there was a steel hand in there relentlessly closing on an organ. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
- Divide half the mixture between 4 glass bowls, then sprinkle with a few fresh raspberries and a bit more crushed honeycomb. The Sun
- Ireland does not have another manufacturing facility with a similar capacity to absorb glass cullet (crushed glass).
- These are all lonely, arguably damaged people, and once you get past the silliness it's all rather crushingly sad. TV highlights 10/08/201: Timothy Spall: Back At Sea | The Sopranos | Who Do You Think You Are? | 24 Hours in A&E | Forbidden Love
- An iceberg smashes its way to the surface, all sharp angles and ragged edges, rearing over the barely visible remains of a crushed and sinking ship.
- I had to struggle through the crush to get to the door.
- Their pastorals, both published in 1651, offered choices to Royalists in the aftermath of the crushing defeat at Worcester.
- In this case the experiment involves using a hydraulic press to crush specimen cubes of the concrete, and measuring the pressure at which the cube breaks.
- They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
- That proud record lasted eight minutes before they were crushed under the German machine. The Sun
