crush

  1. Noun.  A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  2. Noun.  Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.
  3. Noun.  A short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation; the object of this infatuation.
  4. Noun.  A violent crowding.
  5. Noun.  A crowd control barrier.
  6. Noun.  A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
  7. Noun.  A party, festive function.
  8. 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.
  9. Verb.  To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
  10. Verb.  To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
  11. Verb.  To oppress or burden grievously.
  12. Verb.  To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
  13. Verb.  (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force.
  14. Verb.  To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
  15. Verb.  (sports) to defeat emphatically.

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