smashing; overpowering; humiliating, mortifying
smash, break into small pieces; squeeze hard; defeat, destroy
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Crushing Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Crush
of Crush
(a.)
That crushes; overwhelming.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutThat crushes; overwhelming.
crushing
\crush"ing\, a. that crushes; overwhelming. "the blow must be quick and crushing."
crushing
adj : physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing" [syn: devastating]
n : forceful prevention: "suppression of liberal newspapers"; "quelling of the revolution" [syn: suppression, quelling, stifling]
Noun
1. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
(synonym) suppression, quelling, stifling
(hypernym) prevention, bar
(hyponym) crackdown
(derivation) oppress, suppress, crush
Adjective
1. physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"
(synonym) devastating
(similar) destructive
Noun
1. leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
(synonym) crushed leather
(hypernym) leather
2. a dense crowd of people
(synonym) jam, press
(hypernym) crowd
(hyponym) traffic jam, snarl-up
3. temporary love of an adolescent
(synonym) puppy love, calf love, infatuation
(hypernym) love
4. the act of crushing
(synonym) crunch, compaction
(hypernym) compression, compressing
(hyponym) grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation
Verb
1. come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
(synonym) oppress, suppress
(hyponym) repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce
(derivation) suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
2. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
(synonym) squash, squelch, mash, squeeze
(hypernym) press
(hyponym) wring
(derivation) crunch, compaction
3. 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"
(synonym) beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish
(hypernym) get the better of, overcome, defeat
(hyponym) outpoint, outscore
(entail) win
(verb-group) outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent
4. break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy"
(hypernym) break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
(hyponym) bruise
(derivation) crunch, compaction
5. humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
(synonym) smash, demolish
(hypernym) humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
6. crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
(synonym) jam
(hypernym) bruise, contuse
7. make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
(synonym) break down
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
8. become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
(hypernym) break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
Crushing Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Crush may refer to:
Music
Bands
- Crush (American band), a band on Atlantic Records from 1991 to 1993
- Crush (British band), a band featuring Jayni Hoy and Donna Air from the television series Byker Grove
- Crush (Canadian band), a band from Newfoundland, Canada
- Crush (Romanian band), see list of Romanian musicians
- Crush 40, a Japanese-American hard rock band
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