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Definition of Crush

Crush

  1. 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.
  2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
  3. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
  4. To oppress or burden grievously.
  5. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
  6. To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.
  7. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  8. Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.

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

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

Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.
Charlie Sheen

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
Will Smith

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