Synonyms for crushes
crush·es

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1. List of paraphrases for "crushes":

   overpowers, crush, overwhelms, sweeps

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1. Simone Weil:

   Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

2. Rich Fury/WireImage:

   We've always been very busy … I've always been close to my family, i don't want to remember high school as dating some guy that I'm most likely going to be hating next [year]. ... Everybody's had crushes. [But] No. No room for dating.

3. Stella Adler:

   Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

4. Colton:

   War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

5. D. H. Lawrence:

   Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.