crush
noun
1 crush
Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated.
synonym: crushed leather.
2 crush
A dense crowd of people.
synonyms: jam, press.
Roget 72:
assemblage;
collection,
collocation,
colligation†;
compilation,
levy,
gathering,
ingathering,
muster,
attroupement†;
team;
concourse,
conflux†,
congregation,
contesseration†,
convergence
etc.
290;
meeting,
levee,
reunion,
drawing room,
at home;
conversazione [It]
etc.
(social gathering)
892;
assembly,
congress;
convention,
conventicle;
gemote†;
conclave
etc.
(council)
696;
posse,
posse comitatus [Lat.];
Noah's ark.
miscellany,
collectanea†;
museum,
menagerie
etc.
(store)
636;
museology†.
crowd,
throng,
group;
flood,
rush,
deluge;
rabble,
mob,
press,
crush,
cohue†,
horde,
body,
tribe;
crew,
gang,
knot,
squad,
band,
party;
swarm,
shoal,
school,
covey,
flock,
herd,
drove;
atajo†;
bunch,
drive,
force,
mulada [U.S.];
remuda†;
roundup [U.S.];
array,
bevy,
galaxy;
corps,
company,
troop,
troupe,
task force;
army,
regiment
etc.
(combatants)
726;
host
etc.
(multitude)
102;
populousness.
clan,
brotherhood,
fraternity,
sorority,
association
etc.
(party)
712.
volley,
shower,
storm,
cloud.
group,
cluster,
Pleiades,
clump,
pencil;
set,
batch,
lot,
pack;
budget,
assortment,
bunch;
parcel;
packet,
package;
bundle,
fascine†,
fasces†,
bale;
seron†,
seroon†;
fagot,
wisp,
truss,
tuft;
shock,
rick,
fardel†,
stack,
sheaf,
haycock†;
fascicle,
fascicule†,
fasciculus [Lat.],
gavel,
hattock†,
stook†.
accumulation
etc.
(store)
636;
congeries,
heap,
lump,
pile,
rouleau†,
tissue,
mass,
pyramid;
bing†;
drift;
snowball,
snowdrift;
acervation†,
cumulation;
glomeration†,
agglomeration;
conglobation†;
conglomeration,
conglomerate;
coacervate [Chem],
coacervation [Chem],
coagmentation†,
aggregation,
concentration,
congestion,
omnium gaterum [Lat.],
spicilegium†,
black hole of Calcutta;
quantity
etc.
(greatness)
31.
collector,
gatherer;
whip,
whipper in.
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Polish: stonka
3 crush
4 crush
verb
1 crush
Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority.
synonyms: oppress, suppress.
Roget 879:
be humble
etc.
adj.;
deign,
vouchsafe,
condescend;
humble oneself,
demean oneself;
stoop,
stoop to conquer;
carry coals;
submit
etc.
725;
submit with a good grace
etc.
(brook)
826;
yield the palm.
lower one's tone,
lower one's note;
sing small,
draw in one's horns,
sober down;
hide one's face,
hide one's diminished head;
not dare to show one's face,
take shame to oneself,
not have a word to say for oneself;
feel shame,
be conscious of shame,
feel disgrace,
be conscious of disgrace;
drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs.
blush for,
blush up to the eves;
redden,
change color;
color up;
hang one's head,
look foolish,
feel small.
render humble;
humble,
humiliate;
let down,
set down,
take down,
tread down,
frown down;
snub,
abash,
abase,
make one sing small,
strike dumb;
teach one his distance;
put down,
take down a peg,
take down a peg lower;
throw into the shade,
cast into the shade
etc.
874;
stare out of countenance,
put out of countenance;
put to the blush;
confuse,
ashame†,
mortify,
disgrace,
crush;
send away with a flea in one's ear.
get a setdown†.
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Roget 509:
be disappointed;
look blank,
look blue;
look aghast,
stand aghast
etc.
(wonder)
870;
find to one's cost;
laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth;
find one a false prophet.
not realize one's hope,
not realize one's expectation.
[cause to be disappointed]
disappoint;
frustrate,
discomfit,
crush,
defeat
(failure)
732;
crush one's hope,
dash one's hope,
balk one's hope,
disappoint one's hope,
blight one's hope,
falsify one's hope,
defeat one's hope,
discourage;
balk,
jilt,
bilk;
play one false,
play a trick;
dash the cup from the lips,
tantalize;
dumfound,
dumbfound,
dumbfounder,
dumfounder
(astonish)
870.
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Dutch: onderdrukken
2 crush
To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition:
— Crush an aluminum can.
synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch.
Roget 195:
become small,
become smaller;
lessen,
decrease
etc.
36;
grow less,
dwindle,
shrink,
contract,
narrow,
shrivel,
collapse,
wither,
lose flesh,
wizen,
fall away,
waste,
wane,
ebb;
decay
etc.
(deteriorate)
659.
be smaller than,
fall short of;
not come up to
etc.
(be inferior)
34.
render smaller,
lessen,
diminish,
contract,
draw in,
narrow,
coarctate†;
boil down;
constrict,
constringe†;
condense,
compress,
squeeze,
corrugate,
crimp,
crunch,
crush,
crumple up,
warp,
purse up,
pack,
squeeze,
stow;
pinch,
tighten,
strangle;
cramp;
dwarf,
bedwarf†;
shorten
etc.
201;
circumscribe
etc.
229;
restrain
etc.
751.
[reduce in size by abrasion or paring. ]
(subtraction)
38
abrade,
pare,
reduce,
attenuate,
rub down,
scrape,
file,
file down,
grind,
grind down,
chip,
shave,
shear,
wear down.
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3 crush
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.
synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish.
Roget 330:
come to dust;
be disintegrated,
be reduced to powder
&c..
reduce to powder,
grind to powder;
pulverize,
comminute,
granulate,
triturate,
levigate†;
scrape,
file,
abrade,
rub down,
grind,
grate,
rasp,
pound,
bray,
bruise;
contuse,
contund†;
beat,
crush,
cranch†,
craunch†,
crunch,
scranch†,
crumble,
disintegrate;
attenuate
etc.
195.
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Dutch: overwinnen, overwinnen, verslaan
4 crush
Break into small pieces.
Dutch: verbrokkelen, brokkelen, verpletteren, pletten, in elkaar persen, persen
5 crush
Humiliate or depress completely:
— She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation.
synonym: smash.
Dutch: ontmoedigen, afstompen, moedeloos maken, demoraliseren
6 crush
Crush or bruise.
synonym: jam.
7 crush
8 crush
Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure.
Dutch: platdrukken, kneuzen, verpletteren, pletten, samenpersen
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