Defenition of the word crushing

• Defenition of the word crushing

  • physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"
  • forceful prevention: "suppression of liberal newspapers"; "quelling of the revolution"
  • forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
  • forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
  • physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

Synonyms for the word crushing

• • devastating
  • quelling
  • stifling
  • suppression

Similar words in the crushing

• • destructive

Hyponyms for the word crushing

• • crackdown

Hypernyms for the word crushing

• • bar
  • prevention

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