crush crunch compaction | the act of crushing |
suppression crushing quelling stifling | forceful prevention, putting down by power or authority, the suppression of heresy, the quelling of the rebellion, the stifling of all dissent |
puppy love calf love crush infatuation | temporary love of an adolescent |
fruit juice fruit crush | drink produced by squeezing or crushing fruit |
crush jam press | a dense crowd of people |
gravel crushed rock | rock fragments and pebbles |
crushed leather crush | leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated |
crush | break into small pieces, The car crushed the toy |
stub out crush out extinguish press out | extinguish by crushing, stub out your cigar |
crush | become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure, The plastic bottle crushed against the wall |
beat beat out crush shell trounce vanquish | 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 |
break down crush | make ineffective, Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination |
jam crush | crush or bruise, jam a toe |
squash crush squelch mash squeeze | to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition, crush an aluminum can, squeeze a lemon |
crush smash demolish | humiliate or depress completely, She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation, The death of her son smashed her |
oppress suppress crush | come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority, The government oppresses political activists |
crushing devastating | physically or spiritually devastating, often used in combination, a crushing blow, a crushing rejection, bone-crushing |
broken crushed humbled humiliated low | subdued or brought low in condition or status, brought low, a broken man, his broken spirit |
crushed | treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance, crushed velvet |