crush

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

   “The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot”

2. isim Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
3. isim A violent crowding.
4. isim A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

   “a crush at a reception”

5. isim A group or gang.

   “Then there was another set who called themselves the "Ragged Thirteen"; and the account says "they looked it." And, like most diggers, this "crush," to quote my authority, could handle the cards a bit.”

6. isim A crowd control barrier.
7. isim A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.

   “"Look," said Crabbe, warm orange crush in his hand.”

8. isim An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.

   “I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.”

9. isim The human object of such infatuation or affection.

   “He took his crush out for dinner.”

10. isim A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
11. isim A party or festive function.

    “Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.”

12. isim The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
13. isim The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

    “black crush; white crush”

14. isim A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.

    “Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush is a "gateway fetish"—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time.”

15. fiil To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.

    “to crush grapes”

16. fiil To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.

    “to crush quartz”

17. fiil To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

    “After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections”

18. fiil To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).

    “They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!”

19. fiil To oppress or grievously burden.
20. fiil To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

    “The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.”

21. fiil To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.

    “an eggshell crushes easily”

22. fiil To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

    “She's crushing on him.”

23. fiil To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.

    “He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).”

24. fiil To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

    “My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.”