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say it: kruhsh
crush is a verb and noun meaning "come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority". It is pronounced /ˈkɹʌʃ/ — kruhsh. It carries 12 recorded senses.
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
“Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship”
“We beat the competition”
“Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game”
make ineffective
“Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination”
become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
“The plastic bottle crushed against the wall”
leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
a dense crowd of people
temporary love of an adolescent
the act of crushing
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crush come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.