CRUSH
What does "CRUSH" mean?
To press or squeeze something with enough force to break or deform it.
Meanings
- To press something so hard that it is broken, deformed, or destroyed. The hydraulic press crushed the car into a cube.
- To defeat or subdue completely. The army crushed the rebellion in a week.
- To overwhelm someone emotionally; to devastate. The rejection letter crushed her. figurative
- A brief, intense, usually one-sided romantic infatuation. He had a hopeless crush on his lab partner. informal
- A dense, tightly packed crowd. We lost each other in the crush at the exit.
Did you know?
- The romantic 'crush' is barely over a century old: the sense of a giddy infatuation is American slang first recorded in the late 1800s, long after the smashing sense.
Word origin
From Old French 'croissir' (to crack, gnash, smash), of uncertain Germanic origin; the romantic 'crush' is an American slang sense from the late 1800s.
Remember it
A CRUSH and being CRUSHed share the same word for a reason - both leave you a little flattened.
A little poem
The same verb breaks a stone and breaks a heart-
one leaves a powder, one a longer ache,
and only one of them you choose to start.
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Wordplay
- I had a crush on a girl who worked at the recycling plant. Things got serious - she really knew how to crush it.
What it teaches
The same force that destroys can also mean tenderness: it is intensity, not direction, that the word remembers.
Quick facts
What does CRUSH mean?
To press or squeeze something with enough force to break or deform it.
Is CRUSH a valid word?
Yes — CRUSH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CRUSH?
CRUSH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CRUSH come from?
From Old French 'croissir' (to crack, gnash, smash), of uncertain Germanic origin; the romantic 'crush' is an American slang sense from the late 1800s.
What can CRUSH teach us?
The same force that destroys can also mean tenderness: it is intensity, not direction, that the word remembers.
How players do
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