Antonyms for crush
krʌʃcrush

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. crush

   To break is to divide sharply, with severance of particles, as by a blow or strain. To burst is to break by pressure from within, as a bombshell, but it is used also for the result of violent force otherwise exerted; as, to burst in a door, where the door yields as if to an explosion. To crush is to break by pressure from without, as an egg-shell. To crack is to break without complete severance of parts; a cracked cup or mirror may still hold together. Fracture has a somewhat similar sense. In a fractured limb, the ends of the broken bone may be separated, tho both portions are still retained within the common muscular tissue. A shattered object is broken suddenly and in numerous directions; as, a vase is shattered by a blow, a building by an earthquake. A shivered glass is broken into numerous minute, needle-like fragments. To smash is to break thoroughly to pieces with a crashing sound by some sudden act of violence; a watch once smashed will scarcely be worth repair. To split is to cause wood to crack or part in the way of the grain, and is applied to any other case where a natural tendency to separation is enforced by an external cause; as, to split a convention or a party. To demolish is to beat down, as a mound, building, fortress, etc.; to destroy is to put by any process beyond restoration physically, mentally, or morally; to destroy an army is so to shatter and scatter it that it can not be rallied or reassembled as a fighting force. Compare REND.

   Antonyms:
   attach, bind, fasten, join, mend, secure, solder, unite, weld

   Synonyms:
   bankrupt, break, burst, cashier, crack, demolish, destroy, fracture, rend, rive, rupture, sever, shatter, shiver, smash, split, sunder, transgress

   Preposition:
   Break to pieces, or in pieces, into several pieces (when the object is thought of as divided rather than shattered); break with a friend; from or away from a suppliant; break into a house; out of prison; break across one's knee; break through a hedge; break in upon one's retirement; break over the rules; break on or upon the shore, against the rocks.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crush

   Antonyms:
   consolidate, compact, cake, solidify, compress, amalgamate, upraise, stabilitate, aggrandize

   Synonyms:
   pulverize, triturate, pound, bray, crumble, overpower, demolish

Matched Categories

1. • Break
   • Break Up
   • Bruise
   • Change
   • Crowd
   • Humiliate
   • Leather
   • Love
   • Overcome

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. crushed leather, crushnoun

   leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

   Synonyms:
   puppy love, crushed leather, jam, calf love, press, compaction, crunch, infatuation

2. crush, jam, pressnoun

   a dense crowd of people

   Synonyms:
   pressing, insistency, puppy love, military press, closet, calf love, electronic jamming, pickle, press, imperativeness, kettle of fish, infatuation, public press, mechanical press, hole, wardrobe, mess, fix, pressure, compaction, insistence, printing press, crunch, muddle, crushed leather, jam, jamming

3. puppy love, calf love, crush, infatuationnoun

   temporary love of an adolescent

   Synonyms:
   puppy love, crushed leather, jam, calf love, press, compaction, crunch, infatuation

4. crush, crunch, compactionverb

   the act of crushing

   Synonyms:
   densification, puppy love, crushed leather, jam, compression, calf love, concretion, press, compaction, crunch, infatuation

5. oppress, suppress, crushverb

   come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

   "The government oppresses political activists"

   Synonyms:
   repress, bottle up, squelch, oppress, beat, stamp down, inhibit, break down, persecute, suppress, vanquish, squeeze, demolish, shell, trounce, mash, conquer, squash, beat out, curb, jam, subdue, smash

6. squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeezeverb

   to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

   "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"

   Synonyms:
   comminute, twitch, suppress, vanquish, pressure, squish, grind, romance, rack, quell, twinge, splash, dally, hale, beat, press, jam, smash, wring, flirt, force, embrace, crunch, trounce, coquette, shove, thrust, chat up, demolish, butterfly, compress, hug, beat out, tweet, slop, mash, quench, contract, compact, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, philander, bosom, pinch, coquet, break down, slosh, coerce, oppress, wedge, squelch, bray, constrict, splosh, gouge, shell

7. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquishverb

   come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

   "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

   Synonyms:
   tucker out, reproof, wash up, chide, thump out, mystify, pound, tap out, lash, mash, call on the carpet, ticktack, reprimand, pulsate, amaze, thump, flog, smash, stick, beat up, beat, trounce, outfox, thrum, husk, jam, slash, berate, lecture, strap, dumbfound, stupefy, exhaust, overreach, flap, rag, blast, oppress, outwit, bewilder, dress down, squelch, squeeze, scramble, remonstrate, flummox, vanquish, get, perplex, whip, outsmart, baffle, jaw, rebuke, pose, vex, call down, suppress, lambast, circumvent, work over, chew up, bunk, gravel, drum, squash, chew out, take to task, welt, break down, puzzle, lather, bawl out, quiver, tucker, lambaste, demolish, ticktock, beat out, have words, scold, shell, tick, nonplus

8. crushverb

   break into small pieces

   "The car crushed the toy"

   Synonyms:
   beat out, oppress, demolish, squeeze, jam, shell, vanquish, trounce, squelch, mash, squash, break down, smash, beat, suppress

9. crush, smash, demolishverb

   humiliate or depress completely

   "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"

   Synonyms:
   vanquish, pulverise, bang up, squelch, trounce, beat, break down, ruin, dash, demolish, oppress, suppress, break, smash up, destroy, pulverize, squeeze, nail, bankrupt, mash, boom, squash, beat out, shell, jam, blast, smash

10. jam, crushverb

    crush or bruise

    "jam a toe"

    Synonyms:
    vanquish, mob, wad, pile, squelch, oppress, demolish, beat, smash, mash, obturate, pack, break down, chock up, close up, block, impede, obstruct, squeeze, cram, jampack, ram, trounce, suppress, throng, squash, beat out, shell, jam, occlude

11. break down, crushverb

    make ineffective

    "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"

    Synonyms:
    vanquish, decompose, analyze, conk out, beat, fail, snap, suppress, go bad, tumble, break up, trounce, smash, give way, collapse, demolish, beat out, analyse, break, give out, crumble, go, squash, squeeze, crumple, die, dissect, break down, mash, oppress, take apart, lose it, squelch, jam, shell

12. crushverb

    become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure

    "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"

    Synonyms:
    beat out, oppress, demolish, squeeze, jam, shell, vanquish, trounce, squelch, mash, squash, break down, smash, beat, suppress

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1. crushnoun

   Synonyms:
   compression, pressure, crowd

2. crushverb

   Synonyms:
   overpower, vanquish, quell, subdue, conquer, suppress, squeeze, press, compress

How to use crush in a sentence?

1. Andrew Clyde:

   You've got to be performing among the best assets if you're out of the Corn Belt to be profitable, even in the worst crush-spread environment, we've been at least break-even.

2. Johns Hopkins:

   Testing, tracing, treatment, mask-wearing, isolation, separation, sanitation all of those things because the sooner we do that and the sooner we have a vaccine, the sooner we crush the virus, i hope it would be an incentive for people to follow science.

3. Washington Post critic Hank Stuever:

   I just have to ask: What were we all so afraid of? ... It’s too early for Noah to crush it but it’s enough for now to just utter a sigh of relief. 'The Daily Show' is back with its essential wit and irreverence intact.

4. Jay Tifickjian:

   I can’t think of the last case here, or anywhere else, where somebody committed a negligent or reckless crime that resulted in such a sentence, it’s really telling of how the government can come down and really crush someone if they want to.

5. Alison Ettel:

   To the child, I am so sorry that you're even dealing with this, i would never want to crush anyone's entrepreneurial spirit. ... I'd like to say I'm sorry to the mother in how I actually interacted with Erin Austin, because I know I escalated it, too.

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