crush
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
film
lifestyle
media
sexuality
television
Etymology: From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *crusciō (“to crush”), from Frankish *krustijan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”), from Proto-Germanic *kreustaną (“to crush, grind, strike, smash”).
Cognate with Middle Low German tôkrosten (“to crush, shatter”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”), Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to gnash”). Akin also to Middle Dutch crosen (“to bruise, crush”), Middle Low German krossen, krö̂sen, tôkrö̂sen (“to break, shatter”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”).
Inflected forms:
form: crushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crushed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot
gloss: Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A violent crowding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a crush at a reception
gloss: A group or gang.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Then there was another set who called themselves the "Ragged Thirteen"; and the account says "they looked it." And, like most diggers, this "crush," to quote my authority, could handle the cards a bit.
gloss: A crowd control barrier.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Look," said Crabbe, warm orange crush in his hand.
gloss: An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
How did you know cause I never told / But you found out / I've got a crush on you
And I needed to get my schoolgirl crush under control. There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend.
gloss: An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: He took his crush out for dinner.
It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
gloss: A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A party or festive function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.
gloss: The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: black crush; white crush
gloss: A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush is a "gateway fetish"—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time.
gloss: To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
pos: verb
examples: to crush grapes
Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut
gloss: To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
pos: verb
examples: to crush quartz
With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.
gloss: To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
We believe the invasion has reached its peak. The task remaining is to crush it. Our men are confident, the United Nations command is confident, that it will be crushed.
A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn.
gloss: To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!
gloss: To oppress or grievously burden.
pos: verb
gloss: To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
pos: verb
examples: The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
the prospect of the Duke's speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels
gloss: To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: an eggshell crushes easily
gloss: To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: She's crushing on him.
Then walked in / The girl I'm crushin' / And the kid spilled juice / On my Mom's new cushion
... I could just let loose and be myself no holding back you know we just where to young kids in love, lust, crushing whatever you wanted to call it but we where living it up having fun when we where together the rest of the world didn't exist ...
And the one subject that I get an A plus in every time, is the ancient art of crushing. I crush, therefore I am. I've decided to share the benefit of my wisdom and after months of hopelessly lusting after Dylan, I've REALISED that there are twelve degrees of crushing from the slightly embarrassing things most girls will do to catch the eye of the heir to their heart, to the verging on ridiculous stunts you pull when you're in the grip of a passion that renders you powerless.
"I respect your wiring," he explained, "but I'm crushing on you. And when I crush, I crush hard." He thought it would be better if we stopped seeing each other for a while.
gloss: To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
pos: verb
examples: He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).
They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.
gloss: To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.
Synonyms: pulverise
slay at
kill
ace
Derived words: cattle crush
crush barrier
crush cage
crush depth
crushee
crush hat
crushlike
crush load
crush party
crush pen
crushproof
crush room
crush syndrome
crush-worthy
crushworthy
crush zone
fruit crush
girl-crush
girl crush
livestock crush
man crush
noncrush
becrush
bone-crushing dog
croggle
crushability
crushable
crush a cup
crushed sugar
crushed velvet
crusher
crushing
crush it
crush on
crush out
recrush
soul-crushing
toe-crushing
uncrush
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