| 单词 | crush |
| 释义 | crush (once / 161 pages) 1vn 2v 3v 4n 5n When you crush something, you break it into tiny pieces or crumple it. If you crush the cans in your recycling bin, you'll make more room for more. A train can crush a car that's stalled on the tracks, and a person can crush an insect between her fingers. A figurative meaning of crush is to subdue or stop, like when a military dictator's forces crush a rebel uprising. You can also use crush as a noun to mean "an overwhelming number," like a crush of bodies on a packed subway car, or to describe infatuation, like your crush on your attractive neighbor, who also can be called your crush. WORD FAMILYcrush: crushed, crusher, crushes, crushing+/crusher: crushers/crushing: crushingly, crushings USAGE EXAMPLESI was quite star-struck at the time because I grew up with Wham and their music; he was one of my first teenage crushes. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) In December, Roraima’s governor declared a state of emergency and appealed for federal assistance to cope with the crush of border-crossers. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) St. Thomas crushed their next four opponents: 42–8, 42–7, 49–0, 45–19. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition crush an aluminum can Syn|Hypo|Hyper mash, squash, squeeze, squelch wring twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid stampcrush or grind with a heavy instrument steamrollercrush with a steamroller as if to level treadcrush as if by treading on telescopecrush together or collapse press exert pressure or force to or upon 2v crush or bruise Syn|Hyper jam bruise, contuse injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of 3v break into small pieces The car crushed the toy Hypo|Hyper bruise break up into small pieces for food preparation break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize break or cause to break into pieces 4v become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure The plastic bottle crushed against the wall Hyper break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up become separated into pieces or fragments 5n the act of crushing Syn|Hypo|Hyper compaction, crunch grind, mill, pulverisation, pulverization the act of grinding to a powder or dust compressing, compression applying pressure 6n a dense crowd of people 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper jam, press snarl-up, traffic jam a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move gridlocka traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible crowd a large number of things or people considered together 1v come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority Syn|Hypo oppress, suppress keep down, quash, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate put down by force or intimidation 2v come out better in a competition, race, or conflict Syn|Hypo|Hyper beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach beat through cleverness and wit outpoint, outscore score more points than one's opponents walk overbeat easily eliminateremove from a contest or race mop up, pip, rack up, whip, worstdefeat thoroughly whompbeat overwhelmingly get the best, have the best, overcomeovercome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome rout, spread-eagle, spreadeagledefeat disastrously get the jumpbe there first cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaftdefeat someone through trickery or deceit exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpassbe or do something to a greater degree get over, master, overcome, subdue, surmountget on top of; deal with successfully best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trumpget the better of outfightto fight better than; get the better of overmaster, overpower, overwhelmovercome by superior force checkmate, mateplace an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game immobilise, immobilizemake defenseless outplayexcel or defeat in a game bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrashbeat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreachbeat through cleverness and wit outgrowgrow faster than outcry, outshoutshout louder than outroarroar louder than outsailsail faster or better than outdrawdraw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight outsellsell more than others outsellbe sold more often than other, similar products outpacesurpass in speed better, breaksurpass in excellence outshineattract more attention and praise than others outrangehave a greater range than (another gun) outweighbe heavier than outbravebe braver than out-herodsurpass someone in cruelty or evil outfoxoutdo someone in trickery shamesurpass or beat by a wide margin bulldogthrow a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre, outsmartdefeat by more skillful maneuvering steamroll, steamrolleroverwhelm by using great force outmarchmarch longer distances and for a longer time than outwearlast longer than others defeat, get the better of, overcome win a victory over 3v humiliate or depress completely 3She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation Syn|Hyper demolish, smash abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of v make ineffective 4Syn|Hyper break down alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation n leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated 5Syn|Hyper crushed leather leather an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning n temporary love of an adolescent Syn|Hyper calf love, infatuation, puppy love love a strong positive emotion of regard and affection |
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