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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
- 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).
- 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
- Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
- 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
- On this occasion, Campobasso gave his opinion, couched in the apologue of the Traveller, the Adder, and the Fox; and reminded the Duke of the advice which Reynard gave to the man, that he should crush his mortal enemy, now that chance had placed his fate at his disposal. Quentin Durward
- 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.
- Mostly, the ‘girl crush’ seems to be a vogue phrase for something that has been around for a long time: a fawning but nonsexual interest one woman has in another.
- 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.
