crush
- Noun. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- Noun. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.
- Noun. A short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation; the object of this infatuation.
- Noun. A violent crowding.
- Noun. A crowd control barrier.
- Noun. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- Noun. A party, festive function.
- Verb. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass.
- Verb. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
- Verb. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
- Verb. To oppress or burden grievously.
- Verb. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- Verb. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force.
- Verb. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
- Verb. (sports) to defeat emphatically.
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