Main entry: crunch, crush, compaction
Definition: the act of crushing
Main entry: infatuation, crush, calf love, puppy love
Definition: temporary love of an adolescent
Definition: a dense crowd of people
Main entry: crush, crushed leather
Definition: leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
Main entry: crush
Definition: break into small pieces
Usage: The car crushed the toy
Main entry: crush
Definition: become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
Usage: The plastic bottle crushed against the wall
Main entry: trounce, crush, vanquish, shell, beat, beat out
Definition: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Usage: Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship; We beat the competition; Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Main entry: break down, crush
Definition: make ineffective
Usage: Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination
Definition: crush or bruise
Usage: jam a toe
Main entry: mash, crush, squash, squeeze, squelch
Definition: to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
Usage: crush an aluminum can; squeeze a lemon
Main entry: demolish, crush, smash
Definition: humiliate or depress completely
Usage: She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation; The death of her son smashed her
Main entry: crush, suppress, oppress
Definition: come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
Usage: The government oppresses political activists