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Defenition of the word crush

    • Defenition of the word crush

      • To press or squeeze something so hard that it causes damage or deforms the object; to press or squeeze someone so hard that it injures him or her.
      • To push or press something into a small confined space.
      • To break something into small pieces by pressing it flat, or grinding it to powder.
      • To defeat an opponent overwhelmingly, using great force or violence.
      • To destroy somebody's confidence or happiness; to humiliate.
      • A crowd of people pressed close together in a small space.
      • A strong feeling of love, often for just a short time, usually by an adolescent.
      • A drink made from fruit juice.
      • To end in success a struggle or contest.
      • To tighten (something) so strongly that it loses the form and the original consistency
      • come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in tennsi championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
      • make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
      • break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy"
      • become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
      • the act of crushing
      • a dense crowd of people
      • leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
      • crus or bruise; "jam a toe"
      • come down on; "The government oppresses political activists"
      • temporary love of an adolescent
      • to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
      • 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"
      • crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
      • humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
      • come down on or keep down by unjust use of one''s authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
      • break into small pieces
      • become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
      • come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
      • make ineffective
      • crush or bruise
      • to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
      • humiliate or depress completely
      • come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

    Synonyms for the word crush

      • beat
      • beat out
      • break down
      • calf love
      • compaction
      • crunch
      • crushed leather
      • infatuation
      • jam
      • mash
      • oppress
      • press
      • puppy love
      • squash
      • squeeze
      • squelch
      • suppress
      • trounce
      • vanquish

    Hyponyms for the word crush

      • bat
      • best
      • bruise
      • cheat
      • checkmate
      • chicane
      • chouse
      • clobber
      • cream
      • drub
      • eliminate
      • exceed
      • get over
      • get the best
      • get the jump
      • grind
      • have the best
      • immobilise
      • immobilize
      • jockey
      • keep down
      • lick
      • master
      • mate
      • mill
      • mop up
      • outdo
      • outfight
      • outflank
      • outgo
      • outmatch
      • outperform
      • outplay
      • outpoint
      • outscore
      • outstrip
      • overcome
      • overmaster
      • overpower
      • overwhelm
      • pip
      • pulverisation
      • pulverization
      • quash
      • rack up
      • reduce
      • repress
      • rout
      • scoop
      • screw
      • shaft
      • snarl-up
      • spread-eagle
      • spreadeagle
      • stamp
      • steamroller
      • subdue
      • subjugate
      • surmount
      • surpass
      • telescope
      • thrash
      • traffic jam
      • tread
      • trump
      • walk over
      • whip
      • whomp
      • worst
      • wring

    Hypernyms for the word crush

      • abase
      • alter
      • break
      • break up
      • bruise
      • chagrin
      • change
      • come apart
      • compressing
      • compression
      • contuse
      • crowd
      • defeat
      • fall apart
      • fragment
      • fragmentise
      • fragmentize
      • get the better of
      • humble
      • humiliate
      • leather
      • love
      • modify
      • mortify
      • overcome
      • press
      • separate
      • split up

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