Definition of Crush

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Definition of Crush

Crush

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

To oppress or burden grievously.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.

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Crush Quotations

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson

Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.
Michael Jackson

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
Ted Nugent

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Franz Kafka

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
Stephen Colbert

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison

Crush Translations

crush in Danish is knuse
crush in Dutch is toeloop, aandrang, run
crush in Finnish is survoa, murskata
crush in Latin is frendo, frendo
crush in Norwegian is knuse, presse
crush in Portuguese is esmagamento
crush in Swedish is krossa

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