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To reduce a food to its finest form, such as crumbs, paste or powder. Crushing is often accomplished with a mortar and pestle, or with a rolling pin.

verb

1. To press forcefully so as to break up into a pulpy mass: mash, mush, pulp, squash. See help/harm/harmless.
2. To break up into tiny particles: bray, granulate, grind, mill, powder, pulverize, triturate. See help/harm/harmless.
3. To bring to an end forcibly as if by imposing a heavy weight: choke off, extinguish, put down, quash, quell, quench, squash, squelch, suppress. Idioms: put the lid on. See continue/stop/pause, win/lose/recovery.
4. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. Informal massacre, wallop. Slang clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See win/lose/recovery.
5. To impair severely something such as the spirit, health, or effectiveness of: break, destroy, overwhelm, ruin. See help/harm/harmless.
6. To affect deeply or completely, as with emotion: engulf, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate. See affect/ineffectiveness.
7. To act on with a steady pushing force: crowd, press. See push/pull.
8. To extract from by applying pressure: express, press, squeeze. See tighten/loosen.

noun

1. An enormous number of persons gathered together: crowd, drove, flock, horde, mass, mob, multitude, press, ruck, swarm, throng. See big/small/amount, group.
2. An extravagant, short-lived romantic attachment: infatuation. See excite/bore/interest, sex/asexual.

n

Definition: infatuation
Antonyms: dislike, hate, hatred

v

Definition: compress, smash
Antonyms: let go, release, uncompress, unwrinkle

v

Definition: defeating soundly
Antonyms: lose, surrender, yield

v

Definition: humiliate
Antonyms: build up, compliment, encourage, inspirit, praise

A term used in California and other parts of the United States referring to the time when grapes are harvested and crushed to make wine.

IN BRIEF: To grind, squeeze or pound into bits. Also: to bring to an end by force.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. — Ursula K. Le Guin.

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noun
noun, orig US

A group or gang of people; spec. a body of troops; a unit of a regiment. (1904 — 31).
Observer The best recruiter is the man who is pleased with his 'crush' (1927).

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1. a restraining device for large animals. See also chute.
2. application of pressure so as to destroy the natural condition, shape or integrity of the parts.
3. see crushing.

For a list of words related to crusher, see:

• Hats - crusher: soft, felt, crushable hat; crush hat

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - knuse, presse, krølle sammen, sønderknuse, slå af marken
v. intr. - mase sig, blive krøllet
n. - forelskelse, sværmeri, knusning, presset frugtdrik, trængsel

Nederlands (Dutch)
vermorzelen, neerslaan, fijnstampen, verpletteren, verkreukelen, dringen, gedrang, verliefdheid, object van verliefdheid, samengeperste toestand/ materiaal

Français (French)
v. tr. - écraser, étouffer (une protestation), anéantir (qn, des espoirs), concasser, broyer, écraser (qn, un véhicule), piler (de la glace), se faire écraser, chiffonner (un tissu), serrer (contre)
v. intr. - se ruer en foule, se serrer, s'entasser dans, se froisser (un tissu)
n. - bousculade, toquade, (GB) boisson

Deutsch (German)
v. - niederschlagen, vernichten, zerdrücken, zerquetschen
n. - Gedränge, Schwärmerei, Saftgetränk

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - θρυμματίζω, συνθλίβω, συντρίβω, στραπατσάρω, κατατροπώνω, συντρίβω, καταπνίγω, καταστέλλω βίαια, συνωθώ/-ούμαι, συνωστίζω/-ομαι
n. - θρυμματισμός, συντριβή, συνωστισμός, στριμωξίδι, αμόρε, χυμός φρούτου, (καθομ.) ξελόγιασμα, ξεμυάλισμα

Italiano (Italian)
schiacciare, reprimere, stroncare, fracassare, macinare, tritare, sgualcire, ressa, cotta

Português (Portuguese)
v. - esmagar, subjugar
n. - esmagamento (m)

Русский (Russian)
сжать, раскрошить, раздавить, подавить, столпотворение, влюбленность

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - reprimir, aniquilar, destruir, moler, triturar, estrujar, aplastar
v. intr. - reprimirse, estrujarse, aplastarse, aglomerarse
n. - aglomeración, multitud, enamoramiento

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - krossa, mala, pressa, skrynkla till, krossa (bildl.), tränga sig fram
n. - krossande, kläm, pressning, trängsel, folkmassa, svärmeri (vard.), fruktdryck

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
压碎, 压坏, 榨, 碾碎, 弄皱, 被压碎, 被压坏, 起皱, 被碾碎, 挤, 毁坏, 压榨, 压皱, 镇压

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 壓碎, 壓壞, 榨, 碾碎, 弄皺
v. intr. - 被壓碎, 被壓壞, 起皺, 被碾碎, 擠
n. - 壓碎, 毀壞, 壓榨, 壓皺, 鎮壓

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 눌러서 뭉개다, 밀어 넣다, 힘있게 포옹하다
v. intr. - 뭉그러지다, 쇄도하다
n. - 분쇄, 군중, 홀딱 반함

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 押しつぶす, 破砕する, 押し込む, 壊滅させる, くじく, 押し合って入る, つぶれる
n. - 押しつぶすこと, 粉砕, 果汁, べたぼれ, 夢中になる対象, 押し合い, 雑踏, 群集, 板囲いの通路

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) سحق, قهر, قمع, هزم (الاسم) عصير فواكه, ازدحام, حشد كبير, غرام صبياني‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮מעך, מחץ, דחס, דיכא, חיסל, קימט‬
v. intr. - ‮התקמט, נמחץ, דוכא, חוסל‬
n. - ‮דוחק, הצטופפות, מיץ, התאהבות (מדוברת), מעיכה, קימוט‬

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