crush
IPA: krˈʌʃ
noun
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- A violent crowding.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- (slang) A group or gang.
- A crowd control barrier.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (dated) A party or festive function.
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
verb
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
- (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
- (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
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Examples of "crush" in Sentences
- And even if I did find them all, your definition of "crush" is probably different than mine.
- It is undisputed that the conduct depicted in crush videos may constitutionally be prohibited.
- I just discovered her post on Queer women, slash, etc, and am quite ridiculously in crush with her.
- But before the enactment of §48, the underlying conduct depicted in crush videos was nearly impossible to prosecute.
- Has anybody ever noticed that their junior high crush is at Jenny Craig on Colorado Boulevard, then biked over to join her for a group weigh-in?
- Besides that, I hated the word crush, a pink candy word, a frosting word, something for giggly girls who wrote their name with his surrounded by a heart.
- What they would be expecting then is what they call crush injuries, and that could be broken bones, anything that happens by people being buried underneath rubble: kidney failure, dehydration and the like.
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