crushn.
/krʌʃ/, U.S. /krəʃ/ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [noun] > of impact or concussion > crash, clash, or smash
rackc1300
crushc1330
crashingc1440
rasha1450
reela1450
frush1487
clasha1522
crash1574
clush-clash1582
crush-crash1582
rouncival1582
clashing1619
rack1671
smash1808
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace 2946 When boþe fflutes come at a frosche, Þe fyrste hortlyng gaf a gret crusche.
2.
a. The act of crushing; violent compression or pressure that bruises, breaks down, injures, or destroys; also figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > [noun] > crushing
bruising?a1450
crazing1526
crush1599
torture1605
scrunching1869
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > prevailing or mastering > overcoming or overwhelming > the act of
crush1599
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 63 The hart-breake crush of melancholies wheele.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxix. vi. 369 To heale the eares that have caught some hurt either by bruse, crush or stripe.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escachure,..also, a squash, crush, knocke, or squeeze (whereby a thing is flatted, or beaten close together).
1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 212 A heavy crush of disaster.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 214 The ice pressed dreadfully around them..but the ship always escaped the heaviest crushes.
1882 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VI. Ps. cxxi. 7 Our soul is kept from the dominion of sin..the crush of despondency.
b. In the following perhaps = crash n.1, as now often quoted, and as apparently alluded to by Pope: see crash n.1 2; but it may mean simply ‘destruction by crushing’.
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1713 J. Addison Cato v. i Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. Notices 6 Holding up the star-spangled banner amid the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
c. Coal Mining. (See quots.)
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1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 20 Crush, this occurs when both the roof and thill of a seam of coal are hard, and when the pillars, insufficient for the support of the superincumbent strata, are crushed by their pressure.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 125 Crush. 1. A squeeze, accompanied, perhaps, with more violent motion and effects. 2. A variety of fault in coal.
d. A person with whom one is enamoured or infatuated; an infatuation; so to have or get a crush on, to be enamoured of, take a strong fancy to. slang (originally U.S.).
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > infatuation
infatuation1751
case1852
mash1870
crush1884
pash1891
rave1902
béguin1919
lurve1936
amour fou1961
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > infatuation > person who is object of infatuation
mash1879
crush1884
pash1930
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love or infatuated with [verb (transitive)]
loveOE
paramoura1500
to love with1597
to be sweet on (upon)1740
to be cracked about or on1874
to be stuck on1878
mash1881
to be shook on1888
to go dingy on1904
to fall for ——1906
lurve1908
to have or get a crush on1913
to be soppy on1918
to have a pash for (or on)1922
to have a case on1928
to be queer for1941
1884 I. M. Rittenhouse Maud (1939) 338 Wintie is weeping because her crush is gone.
1895 J. S. Wood Yale Yarns 153 Miss Palfrey..consented to wear his bunch of blue violets. It was a ‘crush’, you see, on both sides.
1913 Dial. Notes 4 10 (Have a) crush (on), to be conspicuously attached to some one.
1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. 31 Some of the younger married women..get a crush on some other woman's husband.
1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. 186 To be jealous you've got to have a fearful crush.
1917 W. Irwin Reporter at Armageddon 349 ‘She has a crush on our military chauffeur,’ said the doctor.
1928 Punch 2 May 484/1 Gervase and Pontefract had had a quiet sort of masculine crush on Joyce for some time.
1929 S. E. Jelliffe & W. A. White Dis. Nerv. Syst. (ed. 5) iii. 335 They tend to be aggressive, domineering and often play the man role with their school~mates, or ‘crushes’.
1952 V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy 212 It is common to make fun of schoolboy and schoolgirl ‘pashes’ and ‘crushes’.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > bruise
brusurea1375
frousshure1477
bruise1533
wan1533
battering1558
squat1578
intuse1590
battery1594
crush1601
contusiona1616
sugillation1623
mishanter1754
stone bruise1805
rainbow1810
birze1818
pound1862
strawberry1921
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 350 Contusions, bruses looking black and blew, strokes, crushes, rushes, rubs, and gals.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vii. 66 It is called Nauell-gall, because the crush is vpon the signe iust opposit against the horses nauell.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3837/4 Lost..a flea-bitten grey Mare, with a Crush on her right Foot in the Hoof behind.
4.
a. The crowding together of a number of things, or esp. persons, so that they press forcibly upon each other; the mass so crowded together.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > crowded condition or crowding
press?c1225
thronga1400
frequence1535
thrust1565
frequency1570
throngness1691
squeeze1802
crush1806
crowdedness1823
condensation1828
density1851
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous > densely packed together
threatc950
press?c1225
thring?c1225
threngc1275
throngc1330
shockc1430
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gregation1621
frequence1671
push1718
munga1728
mampus?c1730
squeezer1756
squeeze1779
crush1806
cram1810
parrock1811
mass1814
scrouge1839
squash1884
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of things pressed or jammed together
throngc1330
lock1563
package1802
crush1841
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. iii. 136 No rank, no sex, could possibly receive exemption from the general crush.
1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) II. 54 The crush to see it was very great.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxvii. 148 A crush of carts and chairs and coaches.
b. A crowded social gathering. colloquial.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > crowded or fashionable
drumc1743
rout1745
hurricane1746
squeeze1779
routationa1800
cram1810
crush1832
1832 T. B. Macaulay Lett. 18 July I fell in with her at Lady Grey's great crush.
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. v. xxxv. 100 It [sc. the party] isn't a crush. I have only asked about thirty or forty people.
c. A funnel-shaped fenced passage along which cattle, sheep, or horses are driven for branding, dipping, etc. In full crush-pen.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > enclosure > branding or dipping corral or shute
crush-pen1856
race1862
branding-yard1881
chute1881
branding-chute1882
branding-corrall1885
crush-yard1888
squeeze chute1899
squeeze gate1925
shute1961
1856 W. Roberts Diary 18 Dec. in J. H. Beattie Early Runholding in Otago (1947) vi. 43 There was no crush pen or drafting race.
1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland iii. 69 A crush, which is an elongated funnel, becoming so narrow at the end that a beast is wedged in and unable to move.
1889 R. C. Praed Romance of Station iv Those animals which were drafted through the crush into the mob destined for sale.
1890 R. C. Praed Romance of Station ii The ‘crush’, or branding lane.
1892 W. E. Swanton Notes on N.Z. ii. 124 The [unbroken] horses are put in a stockyard, and there roped or driven into a crush.
1895 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 Nov. 702/2 A crush—that is, long lines of parallel fences just wide enough for one horse to pass at a time—was erected; they were driven into this long lane.
1931 T. A. Harper Windy Island iii. iv. 240 The lean-to in its turn was divided into crush pens and a large receiving pen.
1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger x. 91 Delacy erected trap yards and drafting crushes.
1942 E. Afr. Ann. 1941–2 105/1 Several hundred protesting cattle must be put through the ‘crush’ and jabbed with the big hypodermic needle.
d. A group or gang of persons; = crowd n.3 2c; spec. a body of troops; a unit of a regiment. slang (originally U.S.).
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun]
ferec975
flockOE
gingc1175
rout?c1225
companyc1300
fellowshipc1300
covinc1330
eschelec1330
tripc1330
fellowred1340
choira1382
head1381
glub1382
partya1387
peoplec1390
conventc1426
an abominable of monksa1450
body1453
carol1483
band1490
compernagea1500
consorce1512
congregationa1530
corporationa1535
corpse1534
chore1572
society1572
crew1578
string1579
consort1584
troop1584
tribe1609
squadron1617
bunch1622
core1622
lag1624
studa1625
brigadea1649
platoon1711
cohort1719
lot1725
corps1754
loo1764
squad1786
brotherhood1820
companionhood1825
troupe1825
crowd1840
companionship1842
group1845
that ilk1845
set-out1854
layout1869
confraternity1872
show1901
crush1904
we1927
familia1933
shower1936
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun]
companyc1325
compartment1590
brigade1637
detachment1678
contingent1728
unit1861
crowd1901
crush1904
mahalla1906
outfit1909
mob1916
serial1941
1904 ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 247 Crush, a crowd.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 151 You want to ask something about someone in the old crush [sc. regiment].
1924 A. J. Small Frozen Gold i. 40 Any one of that crush would do murder for no more than that 500 dollars reward.
1927 Observer 12 June 10/3 The best recruiter is the man who is pleased with his ‘crush’.
1931 R. Dark (title) Shakespeare—and that crush.
e. A drink made from the juice of crushed fruit; = squash n.1 7.
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the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun]
cordial1861
squash1894
crush1919
1919 H. W. Moore On Uncle Sam's Water Wagon 91 Strawberry crush. Wash and mash one pint of fresh strawberries..put three tablespoonfuls into a glass... Fill up the glass with any charged water.
1935 Economist 30 Mar. 734/2 The fruit-eating habit..has inclined the public favourably towards fruit juice beverages (‘crushes’, ‘squashes’, etc.).
1952 A. Baron With Hope, Farewell 25 Have you seen that place along the front where they sell orange crush?
1959 P. Roth Goodbye, Columbus & 5 Short Stories 37 Smelling still of all the orange crush they'd drunk that weekend.
5. Cartilage, gristle. dialect.[= Old High German cros in nasecros, ôrcros, Middle Low German krose, also Middle High German kroszbein, kruszbein, krusbein, f. krosen to crackle, crunch: cf. crushel n. ]
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a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Crish, Crush, cartilage, or soft bones of young animals, easily crushed by the teeth.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Crush, crustle, gristle.
6. spec. in Geology with reference to compression, thrust, or shattering of rock, as crush-belt, crush-breccia, crush-conglomerate, crush-line, crush-material, crush-movement, crush-plane, crush-rock, crush-structure, crush-zone.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [noun] > deformation under stress
shear1888
flow1889
thrust-movement1890
crush1893
creep1900
thrust1903
underthrusting1908
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > composite rock > [noun] > conglomerate > specific
pinnel1766
grauwacke1794
unguilite1799
greywacke1805
yolky-stone1805
nagelfluh1808
coombe rock1822
pebble bed1849
breccia1856
ceppo1881
banket1886
ouklip1892
crush-conglomerate1893
basal conglomerate1900
calcrete1902
rudite1904
fanglomerate1912
beach-rock1919
1893 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 3) vi. i. ii. 703 Dykes of 50 or 60 yards in breadth are reduced, where one of these crush-lines crosses them obliquely, to a thickness of no more than four feet.
1895 G. W. Lamplugh in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LI. 564 Essentially, these crush-conglomerates are rocks made up of scattered fragments set in a slaty matrix.
1895 G. W. Lamplugh in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LI. 571 The rocks bordering on the crush-zones.
1895 G. W. Lamplugh in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LI. 574 The crush material is again revealed.
1895 G. W. Lamplugh in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LI. 578 Three..separate zones of the crush-structure.
1903 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4) I. ii. ii. vii. 164 Angular fragmentary rubbish..has subsequently been consolidated by some infiltrating cement (Fault-rock, Crush-breccia, Crush-conglomerate).
1903 Trans. Edinb. Geol. Soc. 8 30 The previous investigators of Fassa Valley failed to recognise the presence of the innumerable crush-planes with extremely low hade.
1903 Nature 12 Feb. 359/1 This passage-zone had been the great crush-zone of the district.
1904 Nature 16 June 166/1 The post-Bala crush-movements.
1930 B. N. Peach & J. Horne Chapters Geol. Scotl. 62 The belt of sheared rocks and flinty crush-material.
1930 B. N. Peach & J. Horne Chapters Geol. Scotl. 62 The flinty crush-rock weathers with a black or brown surface.
1937 Discovery Oct. 324/1 The flint crush belt that runs throughout the length of the Long Island.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. Also crush hat n., crush-room n.
crush-bone n.
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1696 London Gaz. No. 3193/4 Lost..a bay Gelding..with a Crush bone on the side of the Nose.
crush-nosed adj.
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1876 R. Browning Shop 9 Some crush-nosed human-hearted dog.
C2.
crush bar n. a bar in a theatre, where the audience may buy drinks during the intervals of the entertainment.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar > in club, hotel, or theatre
the Shades1823
the nineteenth hole1901
dispense1934
nineteenth1948
crush bar1954
1954 Granta 24 Apr. 22/2 Shall I follow the deception of the crush bar into the first world of critical abuse?
1968 V. C. Clinton-Baddeley My Foe Outstretch'd ii. 50 In the second interval he made his way..round the back of the Grand Circle to the crush bar.
crush barrier n. a barrier erected to restrain a crowd.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > to restrain a crowd
crush barrier1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 9/1 To prevent mishap several other crush barriers are erected.
1970 Guardian 24 Mar. 11/6 The stations are not equipped with proper crush barriers.
crush-pen n. (see sense 4c above).
crush-yard n. Australian and New Zealand a yard leading to the crush (sense 4c); also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > enclosure > branding or dipping corral or shute
crush-pen1856
race1862
branding-yard1881
chute1881
branding-chute1882
branding-corrall1885
crush-yard1888
squeeze chute1899
squeeze gate1925
shute1961
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms III. xvi. 247 This was the crush~yard and no gateway. I was safe to be hanged in six weeks.
1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xvi. 127 More would have been done but for the number of previously shorn sheep being mixed up with the woolly, making it necessary to fill the crush-yard more often.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Apr. 377/2 For handling large herds a crush yard is recommended.
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crush syndrome n. Medicine a condition caused by reperfusion of a large area of soft tissue, esp. muscle, as the pressure on it is released following prolonged severe crushing, resulting in shock and potential kidney failure as large quantities of potassium, myoglobin, and enzymes from the damaged tissue are released into the circulation.
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1941 E. G. L. Bywaters & D. Beall in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Mar. 427/1 Amongst air-raid casualties seen at this hospital have been four cases of crush injury of the limbs which..were thought to represent a specific and hitherto unreported syndrome.]
1941 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Mar. 445/1 [Bywaters and Beall] regard muscle injury as the most significant feature in the ‘crush syndrome’.
1976 Environmental Health Perspectives 15 103/1 This model [of acute renal failure], characterized by rhabdomyolysis, acute plasma volume depletion, hemolysis, and myohemoglobinuria has many similarities to the human crush syndrome.
1992 New Republic 27 July 28/1 Medical experts also thought it significant that Bay Area rescue units found quake victims quickly and got them to hospitals in time to prevent special problems such as crush syndrome.
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A narrow stall, pen, or (now usually) steel cage-like structure used to confine and restrain a cow, horse, or other animal during veterinary treatment, examination, etc. Earliest as a modifier, in crush pen. Also with modifier, as in cattle crush, livestock crush, etc.There is sometimes a passageway leading to the crush; cf. race n.1 5d, and see also sense 4c, from which this sense is often difficult to distinguish.In North American usage, the more usual term is squeeze chute (see squeeze chute n.).
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1857 Sydney Morning Herald 25 Dec. 5/1 The crush-pen is formed by means of double gates... The horse is enclosed between the two, and more or less tightly compressed.
1917 Rhodesia Agric. Jrnl. 14 338 Cattle will follow on into the crush more willingly if two or three are standing in the race.
2016 Wilts. Gaz. & Herald (Nexis) 18 Apr. Richard and Ian have been doing some foot trimming using a cattle crush, where the animals can be safely restrained and the hooves held in place with a number of supporting straps.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
crushv.
/krʌʃ/, U.S. /krəʃ/ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > bring into collision > with noise
crush1398
clash1686
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [verb (intransitive)] > of impact or concussion > crash, clash, or smash
crush1398
clash?1518
swash1556
crash1563
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > cause sudden or violent sound [verb (transitive)] > of impact or concussion > crash, clash, or smash
crush1398
scrash1640
clash1686
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) x. vii. 379 Cole quenchyd though it greue not wyth brennynge hym that trede theron it makyth crusshynge and grete noyse.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4752 At yche cornell of þe castell was crusshyng of weppon.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5852 Crakkyng of cristis, crusshyng of speires.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7298 There was crie of ken men, crussing of wepyn.
2. absolute.1885 Mrs. H. Ward tr. H.-F. Amiel Jrnl. (1891) 18 The wish to crush, roused irresistibly by all that creeps.† f. In imprecations. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To compress with violence, so as to break, bruise, destroy, squeeze out of natural shape or condition: said of the effect of pressure whether acting with momentum or otherwise.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > crush
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to-bruisec1000
swatchea1300
to-gnidea1300
defoulc1300
to-crushc1300
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to-squatc1325
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crush?a1400
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to-quashc1480
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pletter1598
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mortify1609
winder1610
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quest1647
scrouge1755
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jam1832
roll1886
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1134 He [the geaunt] caughte hyme in armez, And enclosez hyme clenly, to cruschene hys rybbez.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 106 Crusshyn' bonys, ocillo.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOOvv The worme that is crusshed or poysoned.
1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxix. 15 The Ostrich..leaueth her egges in the earth..And forgetteth that the foot may crush them.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 33 Some of these I broke..by crushing it [the stem] with a small pair of Plyers.
1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xii. 84 In one promiscuous Carnage crush'd and bruis'd.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 357 The leaves, when crushed, emit a powerful smell of camphor.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 9 The shock which would crush a railway carriage.
b. With adverb complement, defining the result.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 502/2 He hath crousshed his legge with the fall all to peces.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 64 That they may crush downe with a heauie fall, The vsurping helmets of our aduersaries. View more context for this quotation
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xii. sig. C10 He is a bladder blown vp with wind, which the least flaw crushes to nothing.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 50 Some..cast themselves in the way and are crusht to death.
1768 J. Byron Narr. Patagonia 212 We expected..the roof and walls of our prison to fall in upon us, and crush us to pieces.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. ix. 215 Philammon crushed the letter together in his hand.
1893 N.E.D. at Crush Mod. Crushed flat under the feet of the crowd.
c. To crumple or put out of shape (cloth, a dress, etc.) by pressure or rough handling.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > corrugate [verb (transitive)] > wrinkle or crease > crumple
scrumplec1600
crumple1632
rafflec1728
wobble1854
cringle1880
crush1893
1893 N.E.D. at Crush Mod. Her bonnet and dress were all crushed.
d. intransitive. To advance with crushing.
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1876 J. G. Whittier Lost Occasion 24 Crushing as if with Talus' flail Through Error's logic-woven mail.
e. intransitive (for reflexive). To become violently compressed, squeezed out of shape, or otherwise injured, by outside pressure.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press, squeeze, or pinch [verb (intransitive)] > be or become crushed
to-crushc1380
batter1589
crush1755
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Crush, to be condensed.
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) IV. 282 Its texture tender, soon crushing and becoming watery when gathered.
1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) I. 553 Their rotten machine must crush under the trial.
1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxxix. 506 I heard the hailstones crush between my feet and the soft grass of the lawn.
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1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 13 Crush me if ever I saw any thing half so handsome before!
3.
a. To press or squeeze forcibly or violently. (The force, not the effect, being the prominent notion.) Also with adverb complement, to crush against, into, out of, through.
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1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ev Fie, fie, he saies, you crush me, let me go. View more context for this quotation
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 13 To crush our old limbs in vngentle steele. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Num. xxii. 25 The asse..crusht [ Coverd. thrust, Geneva dasht] Balaams foote against the wall. View more context for this quotation
1884 Law Rep.: Probate Div. 9 205 The salving vessel..was crushed against the landing-stage..and was damaged.
1893 N.E.D. at Crush Mod. Too many people were crushed into the carriage. The article was in type but has been crushed out by the pressure of political news.
b. intransitive (for reflexive). To advance or make one's way by crushing or pressure. Also, to crush one's way.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > with persistence, effort, or urgency
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thringc893
thresta1225
wina1300
thrustc1330
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throngc1440
wrestc1450
thrimp1513
to put forward1529
intrude1562
breast1581
shoulder1581
haggle1582
strivea1586
wrestle1591
to push on (also along)1602
elabour1606
contend1609
to put on?1611
struggle1686
worry1702
crush1755
squeege1783
battle1797
scrouge1798
sweat1856
flounder1861
pull?1863
tank1939
bulldozer1952
terrier1959
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > crowd together
thickc1000
pressa1350
empressc1400
shock1548
serry1581
pester1610
serr1683
thicken1726
crush1755
scrouge1798
pack1828
to close up1835
to be packed (in) like sardines1911
scrum1913
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Crush..to come in a close body.
1860 Sat. Rev. 10 444/1 The multitude which crushes round the Prince.
1893 F. F. Moore I forbid Banns xlvii He came into the room just now and crushed his way up to her at once.
4. figurative.
a. To break down the strength or power of; to conquer beyond resistance, subdue or overcome completely.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > defeat completely or do for
overthrowc1375
checkmatea1400
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
crusha1599
panga1600
to fetch off1600
finish1611
settle?1611
feague1668
rout1676
spiflicate1749
bowl1793
to settle a person's hash1795
dish1798
smash1813
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
thunder-smite1875
scuppera1918
to put the bee on1918
stonker1919
to wrap up1922
root1944
banjax1956
marmalize1966
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 102 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They..use them..to oppresse and crush some of their owne too stubburne Free-holders.
1611 Bible (King James) Lament. i. 15 He hath called an assembly against mee, to crush my yong men. View more context for this quotation
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xlix. 86 His enemies were crushed by his valour.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. 95 Such an opportunity of crushing or humbling Sparta.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. xviii. 267 He sank upon the seat, almost crushed with the knowledge of the consequences of his..action.
b. Of actions, feelings, etc.: To put down, subdue utterly, extinguish, stamp out.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > crush, stifle, or overwhelm (feelings, etc.)
shendOE
whelvec1000
allayOE
ofdrunkenc1175
quenchc1175
quashc1275
stanchc1315
quella1325
slockena1340
drenchc1374
vanquishc1380
stuffa1387
daunt?a1400
adauntc1400
to put downa1425
overwhelmc1425
overwhelvec1450
quatc1450
slockc1485
suppressa1500
suffocate1526
quealc1530
to trample under foot1530
repress1532
quail1533
suppress1537
infringe1543
revocate1547
whelm1553
queasom1561
knetcha1564
squench1577
restinguish1579
to keep down1581
trample1583
repel1592
accable1602
crush1610
to wrestle down?1611
chokea1616
stranglea1616
stifle1621
smother1632
overpower1646
resuppress1654
strangulate1665
instranglea1670
to choke back, down, in, out1690
to nip or crush in the bud1746
spiflicate1749
squasha1777
to get under1799
burke1835
to stamp out1851
to trample down1853
quelch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
smash1865
garrotte1878
scotch1888
douse1916
to drive under1920
stomp1936
stultify1958
1610 R. Niccols Winter Nights Vision in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 573 And at my state with her proud hornes did push In hope my fame.. to crush.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 371 These disorders might have been crusht.
1720 J. Gay Trivia ii, in Poems I. 178 Crush'd is thy pride.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. ix. 215 She was to crush the voice of conscience and reason.
1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland i. 20 The Inquisition was armed with new powers; and wherever heresy appeared, it was crushed, unsparingly, unpityingly.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 160 The higher feelings of humanity are far too strong to be crushed out.
c. To oppress with harshness or rigour.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > oppress [verb (transitive)]
ofsiteOE
forthringOE
overlayOE
ofsetOE
to tread down, under foot, in the mire, to the ground, to piecesc1175
overseta1200
defoulc1300
oppressa1382
overpressa1382
overchargec1390
overleadc1390
overliea1393
thringa1400
overcarkc1400
to grind the faces (occasionally face) ofa1425
press?a1425
downthringc1430
vicea1525
tread1526
to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstonea1533
tyrannizea1533
wring1550
downpress1579
bepress1591
defoil1601
ingrate1604
crush1611
grinda1626
macerate1637
trample1646
1611 Bible (King James) Amos iv. 1 Yea kine of Bashan..which oppresse the poore, which crush the needy. View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 293 There the poor are crusht without a cause.
1846 J. G. Whittier Branded Hand x Woe to him who crushes the soul with chain and rod.
5. To bruise, bray, break down into small pieces; esp. applied to the comminution of ore, quartz, coke, sugar cane, oil-seeds, etc. in various industrial processes.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > crush or break down
brakea1398
crush1588
1588 R. Greene Pandosto Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Vnicornes being glutted with brousing on roots of Lycquoris, sharpen their stomacks with crushing bitter grasse.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 345 For drink the Grape She crushes . View more context for this quotation
1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. viii. 309 The apples had..been well crushed and pressed.
1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 245/1 The lumps of..ore..falling through between the rollers..are completely crushed into small fragments.
1873 C. Robinson New S. Wales 18 Cane crushed at the large mills on the Clarence.
6. To force out by squeezing or pressing; to press or squeeze out. Also figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > twist, wring, or squeeze out
twistc1374
press1381
expressc1400
outwringc1430
to wring upc1440
queasea1450
dow1481
strain1483
squash1599
crush1602
squeeze1602
squeeze1611
out-scruze1626
compel1657
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. i. sig. I2 And crush liues sap from out Pieros vaines.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 139 To crush Treasure out of his Subjects Purses, by forfeitures.
1637 J. Milton Comus 3 Bacchus that first from out the purple Grape Crush't the sweet poyson of mis-used Wine.
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. i. 13 I wanted weight of feeble Moors upon me, To crush my Soul out.
7. to crush a cup of wine, to crush a pot of ale, etc.: to drink, quaff, ‘discuss’ it: cf. crack v. 10.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor
pulla1450
to crush a cup of wine1592
to take one's rousea1593
crack1600
whiff1609
bezzle1617
bub1654
tift1722
bibulate1767
lush1838
do1853
lower1895
nip1897
sink1899
1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. A3 If euer I brought my Conny but to crush a potte of ale with mee.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. ii. 82 I pray come and crush a cup of wine . View more context for this quotation
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. v. 118 You shall crush a cup of wine to the health of the fathers of the city.
1845 E. Robinson Whitehall II. viii. 75 They had crushed several pottles of wine.
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