crush

Meaning

1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
2. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
3. A violent crowding.
4. A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
5. (slang) A group or gang.
6. A crowd control barrier.
7. A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
8. (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
9. (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
10. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
11. A party or festive function.
12. The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
13. 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.
14. A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.

grind

shatter to pieces

knead dough

break to pieces

trample on

trample upon

grind up

reduce to powder

slice up

press down

tread under foot

crushed leather

mass of people

nip off

overbear

push down

rid of

pound down

trample down

tread down

be crushed

break by striking

break into pieces

dash to pieces

force down

manducate

over-crowding

press in

smash to pieces

smooth away

split open

strike against

being jostled

be bruised

stamp-mill

hit with a hammer

defeat utterly

keep close

granulize

graten

pound to pieces

surpress

compression failure

crush-pen

grind. to wheedle

forced entrance

extirpate

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹʌʃ/

From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *crusciō (“to brush”), from Frankish *krustijan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”), from Proto-Germanic *kreustaną (“to crush, grind, strike, smash”). Akin to Middle Dutch crosen (“to bruise, crush”), Middle Low German krossen, krȫsen (“to break, shatter”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”), Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to gnash”).

Meaning

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Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹʌʃ/

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