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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
crush .
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Examples
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Peeled taht sucker adn thirteen or fourteen little fings fell out, adn ai crusht em up and frew em in teh krawk-pot, adn leffit cookin overnite.
GIVE A CAT A FISH - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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And I to learn afterward that there to have been a dreadful peril that all the near Millions to rush toward the Last Road, and so, mayhap, to have caused the death of many, and to have been like to have crusht Mine Own.
The Night Land 2007
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If all the rest had entred, all had bene lost: for the very hugenes of the Spanish fleete, if no other violence had beene offered, would haue crusht them betweene them into shiuers.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Where for the sympathie of their barbarous religion, hoping to finde succour and assistance, a great part of them were crusht against the rocks, and those other that landed, being very many in number, were notwithstanding broken, slaine, and taken, and so sent from village to village coupled in halters, to be shipped into England.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Dutch-men vse (and it is an excellent practise) to take the crusht
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Crabbes (after your verdiuyce is strained out of them) and to mixe it with their Nuts, and so to lay them in heapes, and it will preserue them long: or otherwise if they be to be transported, to put them into barrells and to lay one layre of crusht Crabbes, and another of Nuts, vntill the barrell be filled, and then to close them vp, and set them where they may stand coole.
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Furthermore, many a child's natural aptitude for talking well has been crusht by older people stifling every thought the youngster attempted to utter.
Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Mary Greer Conklin
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Don't you consider how easily they are crusht by Power.
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Common sense is solid, illusion is yielding, also illusion never issues victorious from a combat with it; during a struggle illusion endeavors vainly to display its subterfuges and cunning; illusions disappear one by one, crusht by the powerful arms of their terrible adversary -- common sense.
Common Sense, How to Exercise It Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi
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Monarchy, he sett himself against this, as well as that: but both their weights crusht him ....
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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