Definition of crush

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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..

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Stonebuck :: Stonebrearer (n.) A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.
Jam :: "Jam (n.) A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river..
Squelch :: Squelch (v. t.) To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
Trash :: Trash (v. t.) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush..
Broken-hearted :: Broken-hearted (a.) Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
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..
Squeteague :: Squelch (n.) A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply..
Subdue :: Subdue (v. t.) To overpower so as to disable from further resistance; to crush.
Deathblow :: Deathblow (n.) A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking..
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..
Torta :: Torta (n.) a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process..
Tame :: Tame (superl.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Pomace :: Pomace (n.) The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding..
Grind :: Grind (v. t.) To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones..
Mashy :: Mashy (a.) Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash..
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..
Gyrodus :: Gyrodus (n.) A genus of extinct oolitic fishes, having rounded teeth in several rows adapted for crushing..
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