Definition of crush

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Crush (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz..

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Waped :: Waped (a.) Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected.
Gannister :: Gannister (n.) A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads..
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal..
Mash :: Mash (v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort..
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses..
Crush :: Crush (v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily..
Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.
Mashy :: Mashy (a.) Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash..
Squelch :: Squelch (v. t.) To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
Craunch :: Craunch (v. t. & i.) To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.
Ecraseur :: Ecraseur (n.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows..
Overwhelm :: Overwhelm (v. t.) To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly..
Squat :: Squat (n.) A sudden or crushing fall.
Jaw :: "Jaw (n.) One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine..
Suppress :: Suppress (v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
Groats :: Groats (n. pl.) Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits..
Tame :: Tame (superl.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Gizzard :: Gizzard (n.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium..
Cranioclasm :: Cranioclasm (n.) The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery..
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