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
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.
Charlie Sheen
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
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Franz Kafka
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
I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.
Blake Lively
My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.
Janet Jackson
War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
Ted Nugent
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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