Word Finder - crush

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A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

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Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

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A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

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a crush at a reception

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A violent crowding.

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A crowd control barrier.

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A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.

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An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.

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I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.

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A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.

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A party or festive function.

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The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.

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To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.

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to crush grapes

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To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding

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to crush quartz

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• comminute

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To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

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After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections

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To oppress or grievously burden.

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To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

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The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.

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To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force

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an eggshell crushes easily

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To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

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She's crushing on him.

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To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.

I had an awful crush on him when we were in high school.

Why crush his ego?

We've gotta crush this before it wipes us all out.

She gripped him around the waist, wishing she could crush the breath from him.

I want to crush every last piece of it.

Lori always did have a way with Josh, even back when they were kids and she had a monstrous crush on him.

I have a crush on a hot girl called Stephanie.

It is hard to decide whether to reveal your crush or keep it to yourself.

It gives me all its power and strength, to use to crush the barbarians and throw them all from the cliffs.

I asked his good guy friend if my crush liked anyone and my crush's friend must have figured out I liked his friend because he said that my crush said I was too good for him.

The first guy is my first love, and the other is my new crush.

Your bff let the cat out of the bag for her own gain, and now you're ending up feeling weird/uncomfortable around your crush.

Sarah has fangs and has to be careful not to crush me whenever we hug 24/7.

The hills and farmlands gradually turned to inner suburbia and then to the harshness of urban streets, choked tightly with the crush, smells and sounds of the city.

When the battle was ripe, he would crush the Prussian centre and right between the Guard and D'Erlon's corps.

A local quarrel in the Hawran was seized as a pretext in 1910 for dispatching thither some 30,000 men, with artillery, to crush the Druses.

It was terrible, but he felt that in proportion to the efforts of that fatal force to crush him, there grew and strengthened in his soul a power of life independent of it.

This will come after he's already admitted that he's had a crush on this girl forever, and always wanted to approach her.

But, having failed to crush the Protestant rebellion by arms, she resumed in 1570 the policy of peace and negotiation.

Thus he designed to crush a part of the coalition before the Russians and Austrians poured over the eastern frontier.

He at once wrote to Ney saying that these could only be some of Wellington's troops, and that Ney was to concentrate his force and crush what was in front of him, adding that he was to send all reports to Fleurus.

Immediately afterwards (about 5.30) he received an order from Napoleon to seize Quatre Bras and then turn eastwards to crush Blucher, who was caught at Ligny.

Hoping to re-establish his position and crush Caracciolo, Sforza favoured the pretensions of Louis III.

In 1617 Prince Maurice of Orange committed himself definitely to the Calvinistic party, found an occasion for throwing Oldenbarnevelt and Grotius into prison, and in November of that year called a synod intended to crush the Arminians.

Bilderling's left - and Stakelberg, to envelop and crush the 1st Army, which formed the J apanese right, keeping the 4th Army (Nozu) and the 2nd Army (Oku) in countenance by means of Bilderling's main body.

The Czechs came under the sceptre of the Habsburgs after the battle with the Turks at Mohacs (1526), through an inheritance treaty confirmed by the vote of their Estates; an unsuccessful rebellion which they made in 1621 against the ruling house as protagonist of the counter-Reformation, brought them under the power of a ruthless conqueror, who wished to crush both their faith and their national independence.

An energy which never slackened, a doggedness which no adversity could crush, a fiery ambition coupled with the coolest calculation, and a diplomatic unscrupulousness which looked always to the end and never to the means, these were the salient qualities of the reconstructor of the dismembered Danish state.

Hill, whose men had fought the battle of South Mountain and had already been three times engaged a fond on this day, proper support must have enabled the Federals to crush Lee's centre, but Franklin and Porter in reserve were not allowed by McClellan to move forward and the opportunity passed.

The engagement was indecisive in its results, but the Union commander's purpose, to hold Hood momentarily in check, was gained, and Hood's effort to crush Schofield was unavailing.

It was not until the people was stung by the humiliation of Bull Run that the unorganized enthusiasm of the North settled down into an invincible determination to crush the rebellion at all costs.

But the other charges, far less plausible than that of embezzlement, which were heaped upon the head of the fallen favourite, are evidence of an intention to crush him at all costs.

He had at first to meet and crush at once the mad enterprise of the Paris commune.

After Marshal Campos had failed to pacify Cuba, the Conservative government of Canovas del Castillo sent out Weyler, and this selection met the approval of most Spaniards, who thought him the proper man to crush the rebellion.

In this frame of mind, on the 24th of June 1872, he addressed the German Leseverein, and referred to the stone that would soon fall from on high and crush the feet of the Colossus.

As plenipotentiary in 224 he called in Antigonus Doson of Macedonia, and helped to recover Corinth and Argos and to crush Cleomenes at Sellasia, but at the same time sacrificed the independence of the league.

His position as possessor of the Alpine passes, as an ally of the Avars, and as son-in-law of the Lombard king Desiderius, was so serious a menace to the Frankish kingdom that Charlemagne determined to crush him.

When, in the course of centuries, the exhaustion of richer ores shall have forced us to mine, crush and concentrate mechanically or by magnetism the ores which contain only 2 or 3% of iron, then the cost of iron in the ore, measured in terms of the energy needed to mine and concentrate it, will be comparable with the actual cost of the copper in the ore of the copper-mines of to-day.

There are some very evident disadvantages of excessive height; for instance, that the weight of an excessively high column of solid coke, ore and limestone tends to crush the coke and jam the charge in the lower and narrowing part of the furnace, and that the frictional resistance of a long column calls for a greater consumption of power for driving the blast up through it.

The object of rolling is to crush the leaves and to break their cells so as to liberate the juices.

During the progress of this revolt Germany was so divided and her king was so poor that it was impossible to collect an army of sufficient strength to crush the malcontents.

But soon the victorious peasants became so violent and so destructive that Luther himself urged that they should be sternly punished, and a number of princes, prominent among whom was Phi.iip of Hesse, banded themselves together to crush the rising.

Albert then renewed his raids, and these became so terrible that a league of princes, under Maurice of Saxony, was formed to crush him; although Maurice lost his life at Sievershausen in.

But neither desertion nor death was able to crush entirely the militant Protestants, among whom Christian, prince of Anhalt (1568-1630), was rapidly becoming the most prominent figure.

Although supported by Spain he could not obtain from this quarter an army sufficiently strong to crush the Bohemians, and for some time he remained powerless and inactive in Vienna.

On this occasion Bismarck accepted the decision, but when important interests were at stake he showed himself as ready to crush opposition as in the older days, as in the case of Hamburg and Bremen.

The popular expectations were expressed in the saying attributed to him, that he would crush the Liberals against the wall The opportunity was given by the Social Democrats.

Bismarck probably expected, and it is often said that he hoped, to drive the Socialists into some flagrant violation of the law, of such a kind that it would be possible for him completely to crush them.

Their position would have been easier were it not for the repeated attempts of the Prussian government to crush the party by fresh legislation and the supervision exercised by the police.

It was in the power of Austria to crush Prussia and to put an end to the dual influence in the Confederation which experience had proved to be unworkable; she preferred to re-establish a discredited system, and to leave to Prussia time and opportunity to gather strength for the inevitable conflict.

But he failed to win the permanent adhesion of the people to his reform, or to conciliate or entirely crush the enormously powerful priesthood of Ammon.