Meaning of Crush | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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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.”

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