crush

/krʌʃ/
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crush

A student has a crush on her classmate.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • The act of crushing: The action of applying great pressure to something, often resulting in its deformation or destruction.
    • Temporary love of an adolescent: An intense, often brief infatuation, especially experienced by a young person.
    • A dense crowd of people: A large, tightly packed group of people.
    • Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated: Leather treated to highlight its natural surface texture.

  2. Verb:

    • To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition: To press or squeeze something so hard that it becomes deformed, broken, or flattened.
    • To break into small pieces by pressure: To cause something to disintegrate into fragments.
    • To subdue or overwhelm completely: To defeat or suppress something or someone utterly, often in a psychological or emotional sense.
    • To come out better in a competition, race, or conflict: To defeat an opponent decisively.
    • To crowd or press into a confined space: To force people or things into a tight area.
    • To become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure: To undergo deformation or damage from being pressed.
Examples of Usage

  • Noun:

    • The crush of the crowd made it difficult to move. (The dense crowd made movement hard.)
    • She had a crush on her math teacher in high school. (She had an adolescent infatuation for her math teacher.)
    • The machine applies a powerful crush to the cans for recycling. (The machine applies a strong act of crushing to the cans.)

  • Verb:

    • Please don't crush the bread when you pack the groceries. (Please don't compress and deform the bread.)
    • The army moved in to crush the rebellion. (The army moved in to suppress the rebellion completely.)
    • Our team crushed their opponents in the final match. (Our team defeated their opponents decisively.)
    • Too many people were crushed into the tiny elevator. (Too many people were pressed into the small elevator.)
Advanced Usage
  • "to crush on someone": To have a romantic infatuation with someone.
    • He's been crushing on his coworker for months. (He has had an infatuation with his coworker.)
  • "to get a crush on": To begin to feel an infatuation for someone.
    • I think I'm getting a crush on the new student. (I think I'm starting to feel infatuated with the new student.)
Variants and Related Words
  • Crusher (n): A machine or person that crushes.
    • The ore crusher broke down. (The machine for crushing ore stopped working.)
  • Crushing (adj): Overwhelming; devastating.
    • The news was a crushing blow to her hopes. (The news was a devastating blow.)
  • Crushable (adj): Capable of being crushed.
    • The package contains crushable items. (The package contains items that can be deformed by pressure.)
Synonyms
  • Verb: Squeeze, squash, smash, pulverize, overwhelm, defeat, subdue.
  • Noun: Infatuation, passion, crowd, throng, press.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Crush down: To press or force something down.
    • Crush down the soil around the plant. (Press the soil down firmly around the plant.)
  • Crush out:
    • To extinguish by pressing (e.g., a cigarette).
      • He crushed out his cigar in the ashtray. (He extinguished his cigar by pressing it.)
    • To extract by crushing.
      • Crush out the juice from the grapes. (Extract the juice by crushing the grapes.)
  • Crush up: To break something into very small pieces or powder by crushing.
    • Crush up the pills before mixing them with food. (Break the pills into powder.)
Related Idioms
  • Crush it: (Informal) To perform a task with exceptional success and energy.
    • You're going to crush it in your presentation today! (You are going to do amazingly well in your presentation!)
  • Have a crush on: To be infatuated with someone.
    • It's obvious she has a crush on him. (It's obvious she is infatuated with him.)
crush

A student has a crush on her classmate.

Noun
  1. the act of crushing
  2. temporary love of an adolescent
  3. a dense crowd of people
  4. leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
Verb
  1. become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
    • The plastic bottle crushed against the wall
  2. make ineffective
    • Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination
  3. crush or bruise
    • jam a toe
  4. humiliate or depress completely
    • She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation
    • The death of her son smashed her
  5. break into small pieces
    • The car crushed the toy
  6. 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
  7. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
    • crush an aluminum can
    • squeeze a lemon
  8. come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
    • The government oppresses political activists

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