Crush
Definitions
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- A violent crowding.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- A group or gang.
- A crowd control barrier.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- 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 or festive function.
- The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
Conjugation
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Equivalents
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Българскиувлечение
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Gaeilgemeil
Gàidhligpronn
עבריתמחץ
हिन्दीजमघट
Հայերենփշրել
ქართულიჭყლეტა
Latviešubars
Te Reo Māoriwheke
Македонскисимпатија
Nederlandsbevliegingcrushdranghekeen oogje hebben opoverrompelingoverweldigenplettenstormloopverdrukkenvergruizelenvermalenvermorzelenverpletteren
Polskicrushkruszyćmiażdżyćprzytłaczaćprzytłoczyćrozgniataćrozgnieśćskruszyćsympatiazauroczeniezmiażdżyć
Portuguêsamassarchoquecolisãocrushdominaresmagaresmigalharfraquinhomoerpaixonitepulverizarsubjugartriturarvencer
Русскийвлюблённостьвлюблятьсядавитьдавкадробитькрушитьподавлятьпы́лкая любо́вьразда́вливаниераздавливатьувлече́ние
Українськадави́ти
Examples
“The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock⟳; a crush⟳ of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock⟳ than a correspondingly severe crush⟳ of the foot”
“a crush⟳ at a reception”
“Then there was another set⟳ who called themselves the "Ragged Thirteen"; and the account says "they looked it." And, like⟳ most diggers, this "crush⟳," to quote my authority, could handle⟳ the cards a bit.”
“"Look⟳," said Crabbe, warm orange crush⟳ in his hand.”
“I've had a huge crush⟳ on her since we met many years ago.”
“How did you know⟳ cause I never told / But you found out / I've got a crush⟳ on you”
“And I needed to get⟳ my schoolgirl crush⟳ under control⟳. There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw⟳ me as a friend.”
“He took his crush⟳ out for dinner.”
“It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush⟳.”
“Two months ago I went to a crush⟳ at Lady Brandon's.”
“black crush⟳; white crush⟳”
“Just as they say⟳ that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush⟳ is a "gateway fetish"—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end⟳ up escalating to human babies in no time.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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