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Crush

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
kɹʌʃ

Definitions

  1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  2. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
  3. A violent crowding.
  4. A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
  5. A group or gang.
  6. A crowd control barrier.
  7. A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
  8. An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
  9. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
  10. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
  11. A party or festive function.
  12. The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
  13. 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.
  14. A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.

Conjugation

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Equivalents

41 more languages
Azərbaycan dilidoğramaqəzməkovmaq
Българскиувлечение
Češtinadrtitrozdrtit
Gaeilgemeil
Gàidhligpronn
עבריתמחץ
हिन्दीजमघट
Հայերենփշրել
Bahasa Indonesiagebetanpipis
ქართულიჭყლეტა
Latviešubars
Te Reo Māoriwheke
Македонскисимпатија
Bahasa Melayuhancurkisarremukrenyuk
Українськадави́ти
Tiếng Việtcờ-rớtcrushđẻépnghiên

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

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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