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krʌʃcrush

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 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.

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

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

    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 Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. crush

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

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

Princeton's WordNet2.3 / 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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. crushverb

    Synonyms:
    compress, squeeze, bruise, contuse

  2. crushverb

    Synonyms:
    break, crumble, disintegrate, comminute, bray, CRAZE

  3. crushverb

    Synonyms:
    demolish, break down

  4. crushverb

    Synonyms:
    overpower, overcome, overwhelm, subdue, quell, conquer

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. crushnoun

    Synonyms:
    compression, pressure, crowd

  2. crushverb

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

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How to use crush in a sentence?

  1. Leonardo DaVinci:

    Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

  2. Teng Biao:

    It shows Beijing is doing everything it can to punish human rights advocates and using cruel methods to crush China’s civil rights movement.

  3. Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940:

    Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.

  4. Paul Wertheimer:

    Conventional wisdom says take the closest exit, but that doesn't always work at concerts because that's where the crush is. You want to know where all exits are because exits farther away may be better. You don't want to follow the crowd surge going one route.

  5. Art Caplan:

    We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver because we know that, I'm not going to crush that part.


Translations for crush

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  • سحقArabic
  • увлечение, смачквам, смачкване, съкрушавам, потискам, раздробявамBulgarian
  • drtit, rozdrtit, rozbítCzech
  • SchwarmGerman
  • tu, toEwe
  • aplastamientoSpanish
  • olla pihkassa, puristus, rusentaa, murskautua, nujertaa, liiskata, ihastus, jauhaa, murskaus, musertua, hienontaa, musertaa, murskataFinnish
  • béguin, écrabouiller, écraser, amourette, concasser, barricade, avoir le béguin, s'écraserFrench
  • pronnScottish Gaelic
  • הידלקות, מחץHebrew
  • cotta, ressa, calca, prendersi una cottaItalian
  • לִמְחוֹץHebrew
  • ときめきJapanese
  • korotē, whēkeMāori
  • pletten, vergruizelen, vermorzelen, vermalen, overweldigen, verpletteren, dranghek, stormloop, overrompeling, bevlieging, verdrukkenDutch
  • knuse, sammentrykke, sammenpresse, finknuse, knusesNorwegian
  • choque, colisão, moer, paixonite, dominar, amassar, triturar, esmagar, pulverizar, esmigalhar, subjugar, vencerPortuguese
  • chanqayQuechua
  • pulveriza, măcinaRomanian
  • дроби́ть, разда́вливание, увлече́ние, пы́лкая любо́вь, дави́ть, подавля́ть, влюбляться, разда́вливать, да́вка, влюбленностьRussian
  • zatreskanostSerbo-Croatian
  • mala, trängsel, krossa, förälskelseSwedish
  • ஈர்ப்புTamil
  • ezmeTurkish
  • کچلنےUrdu

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