Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the power or tending to crush; overwhelming; demolishing.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of crush.
- adj. That crushes; overwhelming.
- adj. disheartening
- n. The action of the verb to crush.
- n. A former method of execution.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. That crushes; overwhelming.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
- n. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
Examples
“Good stuff. paul tomblin: Yes, trachea crushing is a trick that could probably be performed by any Sith lord, but could anyone else crush with such flair?”
“That's what I call a crushing blow for a sister, Clarissa.”
“That's because he's not talking about it in crushing moral terms, which he needs to do.”
“From Lee, Whose fault is it that our younger generations will inherit trillions in crushing debt?”
“Whose fault is it that our younger generations will inherit trillions in crushing debt?”
“Translation: "get behind our token ... he's our only hope in crushing Obama!”
“It might not have been as gut-wrenching as the Villanova shot that knocked the Panthers out of the NCAA Tournament at the brink of the Final Four a year ago, but the 2009-10 season was another that ended in crushing fashion for Pittsburgh.”
“We experience the ashes of his torched apartment, the snowflakes falling on the corpses Teddy saw when he liberated Dachau, the leaves and rain crushing down from the hurricane that keeps Teddy and Chuck captive on the island.”
“Literally thousands were waiting just outside in crushing lines, but were turned away because security was going much too slowly. —”
Balls? The Elite Were Elsewhere - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“Avery rushed for a career-high 156 yards, the first Bronco back to top 100 this season, and Boise State piled up 315 yards on the ground in crushing Idaho 45-10 to keep alive its hopes of returning to a BCS bowl.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crushing’.
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Fight scene words
Great words to teach you how to write a fight scene - and for those writers who want to get the old gears of the mind cranking, here's a few fight scene tips to get you started - this is NOT by me,...
Slam, Sidestep, Evade, Roundhouse, Momentum, Counter, Clip, Feeding Frenzy, Advance, Cuff, Ambush, Nimbly and 261 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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CravinforClavin's Words
bellicose, megalopolis, spurious, interstitial, elegiac, crushing, proselytize, strident, hirsute, peripatetic, stultify, apoplectic and 66 more...
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Favorite actions . . .
quash, ravaging, leering, spelunk, fuck, gorge, behead, dismember, mingle, trespass, revenge, baffle and 35 more...
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Death Becomes Her
The Grim Reaper is so creative.
Created in the midst of my previous list, Nightmares!. I had sick stuff on the brain.hanging, lethal injection, firing squad, electrocution, beheading, drowning, suffocation, starvation, crucifixion, thousand cuts, poisoning, disembowelment and 7 more...
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puredanger's Words
defenestrate, crushing, asshat, viscosity, danger, meatloaf, fungible
Tweets
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brandonschauer 'crushing' now also refers to the act of falling in love with a person or thing, as in: "i'm crushing on that new coffee stand on Hayes Street" Oct 3, 2009