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Crush   /krəʃ/   Listen
verb
Crush  v. t.  (past & past part. crushed; pres. part. crushing)  
1.
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. "Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut." "The ass... thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall."
2.
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
3.
To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight. "To crush the pillars which the pile sustain." "Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again."
4.
To oppress or burden grievously. "Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway."
5.
To overcome completely; to subdue totally. "Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels."
6.
To subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch.
To crush a cup, to drink. (Obs.)
To crush out.
(a)
To force out or separate by pressure, as juice from grapes.
(b)
To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress.


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.


noun
Crush  n.  
1.
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. "The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds."
2.
Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.
Crush hat, a hat which collapses, and can be carried under the arm, and when expanded is held in shape by springs; hence, any hat not injured by compressing.
Crush room, a large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. "Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night."





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... They must get Jim out and it was going to be difficult. The car rested insecurely on the edge of the bank and the broken branches of the thorns. If they disturbed it rashly, it might slip down and crush the unconscious man. Mordaunt was the first to see a way ...
— Partners of the Out-Trail • Harold Bindloss
... preceding night. The children were right, perhaps, in the affirmation. The sound of a voice might have reached them, but this voice— was it their father's? No, alas, most assuredly no. And as they thought of the dreadful disappointment that awaited them, they trembled lest this new trial should crush them completely. But who could stop them from going on shore? Lord Glenarvan had not the heart ...
— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne
... consciousness (as would seem the case,) mine could have "done" with more: thanks to its small trick, perhaps vicious I admit, of having felt itself from an early time almost uncomfortably stuffed. I see my critic, by whom I mean my representative of method at any price, take in this plea only to crush it with his confidence—that without the signal effects of method one must have had by an inexorable law to resort to shifts and ingenuities, and can therefore only have been an artful dodger more or less successfully dodging. I take full account of the respectability ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James
... lovely. After all the Swiss landscapes I have done in chalk, and pencil, and water-colours, I was astonished to find what a stranger I was to the scenery. I blushed when I remembered those dreadful landscapes of mine. I was ashamed to look at Mont Blanc. I felt as if the Matterhorn would fall and crush me." ...
— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon
... the magazine; and then to describe the thundering explosion which ensued is impossible. A thick cloud intercepted the light of the sun, and amidst the terrific darkness nothing but pieces of flaming timber, projected aloft into the air, could be seen, threatening to crush to atoms in their fall, numbers of miserable wretches still struggling with the agonies of death. Nor were the party in the yawl beyond the reach of hazard; it was not improbable that some of the fiery fragments might come down upon ...
— Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy • Anonymous


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