crush

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɹʌʃ/

Noun

crush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)

1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
2. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
3. A violent crowding.
4. A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
   • a crush at a reception
5. (slang) A group or gang.
6. A crowd control barrier.
7. A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
8. (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
   • I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
   1. (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
9. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
10. (dated) A party or festive function.
11. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
12. (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
    • black crush; white crush
13. (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.

Verb

crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)

1. To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
   • to crush grapes
2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
   • Synonym: comminute
   • to crush quartz
3. (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
   • After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
4. (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
   • They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!
5. To oppress or grievously burden.
6. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
   • The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
7. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
   • an eggshell crushes easily
8. (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
   • She's crushing on him.
9. (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
10. (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
    • My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.

Anagrams

• Rusch, Schur, churs

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kraʂ/
• Syllabification: crush

Noun

crush m pers

1. (slang) crush (love interest)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾɐʃ/, /ˈkɹɐʃ/
• (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɾɐ.ʃɨ/

Noun

crush m or m or f by sense (plural crushes or crush)

1. (colloquial) crush (a love interest)
   • Synonym: paixoneta