| 单词 | crushing |
| 释义 | crushing (once / 762 pages) adjn Something that's crushing is terribly upsetting or overwhelming. Your favorite team's crushing loss to its rival comes as a huge, disappointing surprise. The adjective crushing can be used to describe physical devastation, like a boxer's crushing blow to his opponent's face, but it more often describes a humiliating or dismaying situation. Bad news might be a crushing blow, and being turned down for a date to the prom could feel like a crushing rejection. Crushing comes from the Old French cruissir, a variation on croissir, "to gnash, crash, or break." WORD FAMILYcrushing: crushingly, crushings+/crush: crushed, crusher, crushes, crushing/crusher: crushers USAGE EXAMPLESThe older woman is instructing the younger one, who is lost in thought in the midst of crushing garlic with a copper mortar and pestle. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) For Kubiak, it happened with a crushing overtime loss to the Chiefs on Nov. 27. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) But in the glaring spotlight of a crushing 34-31 defeat to the Arizona Cardinals, all the Seahawks’ warts and blemishes re-emerged in vivid detail. Seattle Times(Dec 24, 2016) 1adj physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination a crushing blow a crushing rejection bone- crushing Syn devastating destructive causing destruction or much damage 2n forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority Syn|Hypo|Hyper quelling, stifling, suppression crackdown severely repressive actions bar, prevention the act of preventing |
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