Dictionary entry details
• CRUSH (noun)
Meaning:
Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
crush; crushed leather
Hypernyms ("crush" is a kind of...):
leather (an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning)
Meaning:
A dense crowd of people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
crush; jam; press
Hypernyms ("crush" is a kind of...):
crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crush"):
snarl-up; traffic jam (a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move)
Meaning:
Temporary love of an adolescent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
calf love; puppy love; infatuation; crush
Hypernyms ("crush" is a kind of...):
love (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection)
Meaning:
The act of crushing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
compaction; crunch; crush
Hypernyms ("crush" is a kind of...):
compressing; compression (applying pressure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crush"):
grind; mill; pulverisation; pulverization (the act of grinding to a powder or dust)
• CRUSH (verb)
Meaning:
Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
crush; oppress; suppress
Context example:
The government oppresses political activists
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crush"):
keep down; quash; reduce; repress; subdue; subjugate (put down by force or intimidation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
squeeze; squash; mash; crush; squelch
Context examples:
crush an aluminum can / squeeze a lemon
Hypernyms (to "crush" is one way to...):
press (exert pressure or force to or upon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crush"):
wring (twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid)
stamp (crush or grind with a heavy instrument)
steamroller (crush with a steamroller as if to level)
tread (crush as if by treading on)
telescope (crush together or collapse)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
beat; beat out; vanquish; trounce; crush; shell
Context examples:
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship / We beat the competition / Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Hypernyms (to "crush" is one way to...):
defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)
"Crush" entails doing...:
win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crush"):
best; outdo; outflank; scoop; trump (get the better of)
outfight (to fight better than; get the better of)
overmaster; overpower; overwhelm (overcome by superior force)
checkmate; mate (place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game)
immobilise; immobilize (make defenseless)
outplay (excel or defeat in a game)
bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick; thrash (beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight)
exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass (be or do something to a greater degree)
cheat; chicane; chouse; jockey; screw; shaft (defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit)
outpoint; outscore (score more points than one's opponents)
walk over (beat easily)
eliminate (remove from a contest or race)
mop up; pip; rack up; whip; worst (defeat thoroughly)
whomp (beat overwhelmingly)
rout; spread-eagle; spreadeagle (defeat disastrously)
get the jump (be there first)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The fighter managed to crush his opponent
Meaning:
Break into small pieces
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The car crushed the toy
Hypernyms (to "crush" is one way to...):
break up; fragment; fragmentise; fragmentize (break or cause to break into pieces)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crush"):
bruise (break up into small pieces for food preparation)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They crush the glass tubes
Meaning:
Humiliate or depress completely
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
demolish; crush; smash
Context examples:
She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation / The death of her son smashed her
Hypernyms (to "crush" is one way to...):
abase; chagrin; humble; humiliate; mortify (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The bad news will crush him
Meaning:
Crush or bruise
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
jam; crush
Context example:
jam a toe
Hypernyms (to "crush" is one way to...):
bruise; contuse (injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make ineffective
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
break down; crush
Context example:
Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination
Hypernyms (to "crush" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The plastic bottle crushed against the wall
Hypernyms (to "crush" is one way to...):
break; come apart; fall apart; separate; split up (become separated into pieces or fragments)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sentence example:
The glass tubes crush
