Crush
To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
To oppress or burden grievously.
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
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Crush Quotations
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.
Michael Jackson
Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.
Charlie Sheen
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Franz Kafka
War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
Ted Nugent
I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.
Justin Bieber
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson
I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.
Blake Lively
I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.
Maureen O'Hara
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Henry Rollins
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
Stephen Colbert
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Tom Stoppard
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung
My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.
Janet Jackson
I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.
Tre Cool
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Emily Bronte
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
Tom Hanks
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
Julia Roberts
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
Clara Zetkin
I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.
Vanessa Hudgens
It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range.
John Elway
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Daryl Hannah
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
Shana Alexander
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
William Graham Sumner
When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.
Danica McKellar
There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.
Emile Hirsch
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Crush Translations
crush in Danish is knuse
crush in Dutch is toeloop, aandrang, run
crush in Finnish is survoa, murskata
crush in Latin is frendo, frendo
crush in Norwegian is knuse, presse
crush in Portuguese is esmagamento
crush in Swedish is krossa
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