crush

1. verb

1)

essential oils are released when the herbs are crushed

Syn:

squash, squeeze, press, compress; pulp, mash, macerate, mangle; flatten, trample on, tread on; informal smush

2)

your dress will get crushed

Syn:

crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle, crinkle, scrunch (up)

3)

crush the cookies with a rolling pin

Syn:

pulverize, pound, grind, break up, smash, crumble; mill; technical comminute

4)

he crushed her in his arms

Syn:

hug, squeeze, hold tight, embrace, enfold

5)

the new regime crushed all popular uprisings

Syn:

suppress, put down, quell, quash, stamp out, put an end to, overcome, overpower, defeat, triumph over, break, repress, subdue, extinguish

6)

Alan was crushed by her words

Syn:

mortify, humiliate, abash, chagrin, deflate, flatten, demoralize, squash; devastate, shatter; informal shoot down in flames, knock the stuffing out of

2. noun

1)

the crush of people

Syn:

crowd, throng, horde, swarm, sea, mass, pack, press, mob

2) informal

a teenage crush

Syn:

infatuation, obsession, love, passion; informal puppy love