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crush English

Meaning crush meaning

What does crush mean?
Definitions in simple English

crush Verb

— To damage something by flattening it. I will crush the spider with a book.

crush Noun

— If you have a crush on someone, you like them and want to date them. This could be because you think they are attractive. I've got a crush on Joey, but you can't tell anyone. — The person you have a crush on is called a crush. Cindy was my boyhood crush.

crush

— verb (= oppress) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority The government oppresses political activists — verb (= squeeze) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition crush an aluminum can squeeze a lemon — verb (= beat) 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 — verb break into small pieces The car crushed the toy — noun (= crushed leather) leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated — noun a dense crowd of people — noun the act of crushing — verb become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure The plastic bottle crushed against the wall — verb (= smash) humiliate or depress completely She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation The death of her son smashed her — verb (= break down) make ineffective Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination — verb (= jam) crush or bruise jam a toe — noun (= puppy love) temporary love of an adolescent

Synonyms crush synonyms

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crush English » English

grind smash squash pound press mash squeeze destroy pulverize break bruise shatter jam crumble trample beat squelch compress suppress kill flatten crowd shatter to pieces rout overwhelm knead demolish strike pulverise oppress dash crumple trounce tear powder mill knead dough infatuation hit defeat crunch crash vanquish throng run over overpower overcome mince crowding break to pieces

Topics crush topics

What do people use crush to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal

Animal actions
Person Healthy

Injure
Social behavior Conflict War

Defeat
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Break
Person Life Marriage

Romantic love
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Crowd, group

Conjugation crush conjugation

How do you conjugate crush?

crush · verb

Examples crush examples

How do I use crush in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I had a crush on you when we were in high school.
I have a crush on you.
I used to have a little crush on you.
I wish people would stop saying things in ways that crush young dreams.
He's got a crush on her.
Lucy's innocent crush turned into an obsession.
Tom has a terrible crush on Mary.
Tom married his high school crush Mary.
He has had a crush on her.
He had a crush on her.
Tom has a secret crush on Mary.
He has a crush on this girl.
Crush the can before you throw it away.
He had a crush on his Chinese teacher; but what with all the hormones, he had a crush on just about everyone.
Tom has a crush on Mary.
Tom had a major crush on Mary.
Tom had a crush on Mary when he was in junior high school.
Mary was Tom's high school crush.
Mary came up to Tom at the party and told him she had a crush on him.
Mary has a crush on Tom and she wants him to notice her.

Movie subtitles

Imagine that your brain is made of tiny boxes Then find the box that's gay and CRUSH IT!
He does everything to please you and all you've ever done is crush his spirit.
He has a strong crush and thinks I haven't lost my innocence.
Restrain a fire serpent who wants to crush your treasure.
Put the flowers in here. And don't crush them.
Crush him!
Crush the brute!
Hey, Josi Bleicher has a crush on me.
Your young King Ptolemy has raised an army. to crush his sister, Queen Cleopatra.
Like a flower I am afraid to crush.
I'll crush your bones!
You've been running all night. In the daytime you shall stand and sustain their blow, halt the German wedge and hold fast until we crush them from the flanks.
I shall crush you, Master von Roeder.
I suppose you've had a look at the pro, and he's desperately handsome. and you've conceived a schoolgirl crush on him.
Don't crush it, Harry.
Now, Your Majesty, would be a good time to send fresh armies. and crush these barbarians.
Don't let him crush you.
Attack now, Sir. Strike the first blow and you'll crush him.
Or you can crush him!
Why don't I take you right here and crush you like a matchbox?
I had a crush right away from the first day.
It could easily have been retrieved in the excitement. And what kind of weapon thrown from here could both strangle a man and crush his skull in?
I know you have a crush on Lois but don't make any cracks like that.
You wish to complete your record as general crush Spain, make a name like Caesar's, and climb to fame.
If I fail to crush Tyrone, take my sword.
And you have a crush on her!
A refusal would crush me.
I think it's pretty obvious that Stiles has a crush on Lydia. He has since he was, like, eight.
Yeah, wow, I would actually totally crush that look.
I found the first object for our foundation to crush.
I'll fix ya. I'll fix ya! I'll crush your bones!
And because you have a crush on her.
I suppose you've had a look at the pro, and he's desperately handsome, and you've conceived a schoolgirl crush on him.
It is a crush, isn't it?
If I jump, I'll crush you all.
Robert who had a crush on her.
I'll stamp on them, crush them into dust, into flour!
It's just a college crush.

News and current affairs

The decaying Soviet regime was unable to crush Russia's growing democratic movement - it would take Vladimir Putin to do that a decade later.
Culture is too often cited as a defence against human rights by authoritarians who crush culture whenever it suits them.
While the government might be able to crush such disturbances with force, a loss of confidence among the middle class would be more serious.
It would be wrong to put the entire blame for Russia's inability to crush the rebellion on our military commanders, although their planning could be better.
The world's largest dictatorship is preparing to crush and occupy the first Chinese democracy in history - Taiwan.
China could crush North Korea in a day just by cutting off food and fuel supplies.
Of course, the European Union need not fear the rise of a Greek Hitler, not only because it could easily crush such a regime, but also - and more important - because Greece's democracy has proved impressively mature throughout the crisis.
The idea that either side can crush the other and declare victory has proven to be a seductive and dangerous mirage, leaving behind only a trail of blood and hate.
A deadly civil war would surely ensue if the Palestinian Authority seeks to crush Palestinian militants at a time of relentless Israeli attacks and no tangible progress in the peace talks.
His foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, had already threatened to crush the PA government on the West Bank if the UN vote went ahead.
But simultaneous with its attempts to crush the Chechen rebellion, Russia has pursued a very different path in its relations with the Volga Tatars and Bashkirs, who live in their own republics in the Volga-Ural area.
The remnants of Saddam's army were not pursued within Iraq, allowing him to crush the popular insurrection staged in the south, and remain in power.
Now, more than ever, we must believe this, for Russian troops wearing Ukrainian uniforms have entered our country, because Ukrainian soldiers are refusing to carry out orders to crush those who are demonstrating to defend our democracy.
True, China's ruling elite remains a Leninist party prepared to crush all potential threats to its monopoly of power.
For the first time, the army failed to crush the rebellion.
Yanukovych, failing to crush them with his security forces, simply fled.
If so, Israel might use it as a pretext to crush the Palestinians and their newly built institutions.
The cost of non-intervention, of allowing Qaddafi to crush his own people, and of thus signaling to the world's despots that a campaign of domestic terror is acceptable, is far more menacing.
But these forces are now in disarray, with most uniformed Palestinian security agencies needing to be reorganized after four years of intensive effort by Israel to crush them.
Corrupt rulers can use the billions they receive from oil and mining corporations for personal extravagance, or to buy arms for troops to crush democratic resistance movements.
And, as in Italy, a right-wing party, backed by the US, dominated politics for decades in order to crush any chance for the left to take power.

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