Dictionary Entry
crush
crush is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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; as, to crush grapes. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive 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; as, to crush grapes.
- 2transitive verb
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
- 3transitive verb
To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
- 4transitive verb
To oppress or burden grievously.
- 5transitive verb
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- 6intransitive verb
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.
- 7noun
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- 8noun
Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
- 9noun
the act of crushing
Synonyms
- 10noun
temporary love of an adolescent
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- 11noun
a dense crowd of people
- 12noun
leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- 13verb
break into small pieces
"The car crushed the toy"
- 14verb
become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
"The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
- 15verb
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
"Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"
"We beat the competition"
- 16verb
make ineffective
"Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
- 17verb
crush or bruise
"jam a toe"
Synonyms
- 18verb
to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
"crush an aluminum can"
"squeeze a lemon"
- 19verb
humiliate or depress completely
"She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"
"The death of her son smashed her"
- 20verb
come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
"The government oppresses political activists"
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