Definitions for crushes

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Spelling: [kruhsh]

IPA: /krʌʃ/

Crushes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in crushes (cehrssu).

Definitions for crushes

noun

1. the act of crushing; state of being crushed.
2. a great crowd:
3. Informal. an intense but usually short-lived infatuation. the object of such an infatuation:

verb (used with object)

1. to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
2. to squeeze or pound into small fragments or particles, as ore, stone, etc.
3. to force out by pressing or squeezing; extract:
4. to rumple; wrinkle; crease.
5. to smooth or flatten by pressure:
6. to hug or embrace forcibly or strongly:
7. to destroy, subdue, or suppress utterly:
8. to overwhelm with confusion, chagrin, or humiliation, as by argumentation or a slighting action or remark; squelch.
9. to oppress grievously.
10. Archaic. to finish drinking (wine, ale, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to become crushed.
2. to advance with crushing; press or crowd forcibly.

Origin of crushes

1300-50; Middle English crus-chen Middle French cruisir Germanic; compare Old Swedish krusa, krosa, Middle Low German krossen to crush

Examples for crushes

We have a specific idea to attach to THE INTERVIEW that will crush.

His high school prom was around the corner, and he had been hanging out with a boy that he had a crush on.

The main article called Reflections on the Final Crusade outlines in prophetic terms just how ISIS will crush Christianity.

He was daily worse fed, and as the weeks went by was daily less able to crush a foe.

Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?

A new reality series spotlights the extent people will go to impress a crush—from pretending to be deaf to committing theft.

That's a kind of human feeling you don't want to crush out in a man.

Before, he had looked like a giant; now Wahb felt he could crush him with one paw.

And she seemed about to crush it on the top of the stone balustrade at the edge of the platform.

Beneath the car of this Juggernaut we must flout our judgments and crush our affections.