crush

IPA: krˈʌʃ

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.

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.

Examples of "crush" in Sentences

The plane crushed on the island.
Carcinogen Crush is one of the songs.
The Japanese counterattack was crushed.
The result was a crushing defeat of the Dutch.
The chunk of ice falls on the object and crushes it.
Humanism was crushed in the name of the illusory law.
Cystolithotripsy is the crushing of a stone in the bladder.
The battle resulted in a crushing defeat for the Confederacy.
The cab of the locomotive was crushed and the driver was killed.
Examples included crushing bones, stone breaking and picking oakum.
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.