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Crushing   /krˈəʃɪŋ/   Listen
Crushing

adjective
1.
Physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination.  Synonym: devastating.  "A crushing rejection" , "Bone-crushing"
noun
1.
Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority.  Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression.  "The quelling of the rebellion" , "The stifling of all dissent"


Crush

verb
(past & past part. crushed; pres. part. crushing)
1.
Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority.  Synonyms: oppress, suppress.
2.
To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition.  Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch.  "Squeeze a lemon"
3.
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.  Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish.  "We beat the competition" , "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
4.
Break into small pieces.
5.
Humiliate or depress completely.  Synonyms: demolish, smash.  "The death of her son smashed her"
6.
Crush or bruise.  Synonym: jam.
7.
Make ineffective.  Synonym: break down.
8.
Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure.



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"Crushing" Quotes from Famous Books



... the year did not testify to a much more successful activity on the part of the new league in the field than it had displayed in the sphere of diplomacy. In vain did the envoy of the republic urge Henry and his counsellors to follow up the crushing blow dealt to the cardinal at Turnhout by vigorous operations in conjunction with the States' forces in Artois and Hainault. For Amiens had meantime been taken, and it was now necessary for the king to employ all his energy and all his resources to ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... coffers are but lean. And you, child, too, Shall have your task; deliver this to Laud. Laud will not be the slowest in thy praise: "Thorough" he'll cry!—Foolish, to be so glad! This life is gay and glowing, after all: 'Tis worth while, Lucy, having foes like mine Just for the bliss of crushing them. To-day ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... century before Christ, a place for its infliction was established adjoining the place of execution and the cemetery.[3] It was abolished in the third century by King Wairatissa; but the frightful punishments of impaling and crushing by elephants continued to the latest period ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... general's wife had risen hastily, folded the will as best she could, in four, in eight folds, and crushing it together in her hand, went quietly from the room, which now ...
— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various
... speak to you very particular, Mr. Day," he said, with a crushing emphasis intended for the ears of Mr. Shiner, who was vanishing round the door-post ...
— Under the Greenwood Tree • Thomas Hardy


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