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say it: KRUHSH-ing
crushing is a noun and adjective meaning "forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority". It carries 2 recorded senses.
forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
“the suppression of heresy”
“the quelling of the rebellion”
“the stifling of all dissent”
physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
“a crushing blow”
“a crushing rejection”
“bone-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 crushing 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.