Antonyms for crushingcrush·ing

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1. suppression, crushing, quelling, stiflingadjective

   forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

   "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"

   Antonyms:
   constructive

   Synonyms:
   stifling, curtailment, suppression, quelling, inhibition

2. crushing, devastatingadjective

   physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

   "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"

   Antonyms:
   constructive

   Synonyms:
   devastating, withering, annihilative, annihilating

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1. crushingadjective

   Synonyms:
   overwhelming

How to use crushing in a sentence?

1. Jerry Sanders:

   Being stuck in traffic is just the most stress-inducing, soul-crushing part of society today, we really want to make people's lives better and elevated, high-speed transportation is the answer.

2. Vincent Zhou:

   I have taken all the precautions I can, I've isolated myself so much that the loneliness I've felt in the last month or two has been crushing at times, the enormity of the situation, the pain of it all is pretty insane... but I do recognize that this absolutely does not define me as an athlete, as a person.

3. Nick Clegg:

   It is simply heartbreaking, clearly the results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.

4. Brian Lapointe:

   Oftentimes you have sea turtle nests on beaches that are being run over by tires of this heavy equipment crushing the eggs.

5. Nicolas Heller , a documentarian:

   A lot of these people are dying prematurely, whether they had medical issues or not. Its crushing. There are no words.

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