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WIKTIONARY
crush
Noun
  • A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  • Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
  • Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
  • A violent crowding
  • A crowd control barrier
  • An infatuation or affection for.
  • The human object of such infatuation or affection.
  • A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling
  • A party, festive function
  • The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes place in. Australia
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.
  • To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
  • To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
  • To oppress or burden grievously.
  • To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
  • To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force intransitive
  • To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
  • to defeat emphatically sports