crush
Squeeze until broken
Crush, a noun and verb, shares qualities with the noun and verb squeeze, but crush usually suggests greater force and violence.
You crush grapes to make wine; you crush opposition to become all-powerful.
The noun crush has a wider range of meanings, the most frequent one being a romantic infatuation: I’ve got a crush on you.
It can also convey people squeezed uncomfortably close (crush of shoppers).
Crush to powder
- flattenMake level or smooth
- squashFlatten by pressure
- compactTightly packed together
- smashBreak violently apart
mash · press · squeeze · grind · crumple · crunch · compactor · hydraulic
Defeat thoroughly in conflict
- overwhelmDefeat by excess
- conquerOvercome by force
- annihilateDestroy completely, leaving nothing
- routOverwhelming one-sided victory
trounce · demolish · obliterate · humiliate · thrash · decimate · dominate · quash
Powerfully attracted to someone
- besottedIntoxicated by love or drink
- limerenceObsessive romantic preoccupation
- swooningLosing consciousness briefly
- mooningBaring one's buttocks
daydreaming · heartthrob · dreamboat · schoolgirl · butterflies · blushing · starry-eyed · lovestruck
Dense pressing crowd
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
- swarmMass of moving insects
- hordeDisorganized, overwhelming crowd
- stampedeFrenzied mass flight
surge · packed · jostling · sardines · squeeze · press · bottleneck · congestion
Clustered vine fruit
- vineyardGrape-growing estate
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- juiceExtracted fruit liquid
- fermentationMicrobial sugar conversion
harvest · maceration · must · winemaking · vintage · vat · barrel · stomping
pulverize
Crush to powder
smash · mash · press · squeeze · grind · crumple · crunch · compactor · hydraulic · vise
vanquish
Defeat thoroughly in conflict
- overwhelmDefeat by excess
- conquerOvercome by force
- annihilateDestroy completely, leaving nothing
rout · trounce · demolish · obliterate · humiliate · thrash · decimate · dominate · quash · squash
smitten
Powerfully attracted to someone
- besottedIntoxicated by love or drink
- limerenceObsessive romantic preoccupation
- swooningLosing consciousness briefly
mooning · daydreaming · heartthrob · dreamboat · schoolgirl · butterflies · blushing · starry-eyed · lovestruck · pining
throng
Dense pressing crowd
stampede · surge · packed · jostling · sardines · squeeze · press · bottleneck · congestion · overcrowding
grapes
Clustered vine fruit
fermentation · harvest · maceration · must · winemaking · vintage · vat · barrel · stomping · extraction
- loveadoration, affection, amour, attraction, beloved
- adolescencepuberty, teenager, coming-of-age, growing up, teen
- aggressionhostility, violence, attack, fight, combativeness
- demolitiondemolish, raze, bulldoze, controlled demolition, wreck
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- burdensburden, load, onus, obligations, weight
crushexpand
Increase in size
release · uncompress · inflate · decompress · restore
- crushed icePulverized frozen water pieces
- secret crushUndisclosed romantic longing
- crush itExcel spectacularly
- crushed itSucceeded impressively
- girl crushesIntense same-sex platonic admiration
- crush onRomantic fixation on
crushed, crushing, crusher, crushes, crushingly, crushers, crushable, uncrushed, uncrushable