crushes
Destroys by pressure
Crushes is the plural of crush in its noun senses—particularly the informal meaning of an intense romantic infatuation: She's had several crushes this year.
A crush can also be a dense crowd of people or the act of crushing.
As a verb, crushes means to compress forcefully, defeat utterly, or overwhelm: He crushes the competition, The news crushes her.
Flatten by pressure
- flattenMake level or smooth
- squeezeFirm bilateral compression
- pulverizeCrush to powder
- grindCrush into particles
compact · crumple · mangle · crunch · shatter · demolish · obliterate · pressure
Losing consciousness briefly
- mooningBaring one's buttocks
- besottednessFoolish, excessive fondness
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
longing · yearning · adoration · fascination · enchantment · attraction · flirtation · dreaminess
squash
Flatten by pressure
grind · compact · crumple · mangle · crunch · shatter · demolish · obliterate · pressure · vise
swooning
Losing consciousness briefly
- mooningBaring one's buttocks
- besottednessFoolish, excessive fondness
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
fixation · longing · yearning · adoration · fascination · enchantment · attraction · flirtation · dreaminess · fondness
- childhoodchildhood, baby, child, kid, toys
- girls fictionheroines, girl power, schoolgirls, princesses, coming-of-age
- puppy lovefirst kiss, first love, infatuation, butterflies, blushing
- teen behavioreye rolling, back talk, backtalk, door slamming, moodiness
- teenagersangst, prom, attitude, back talk, brooding
- smash wordsslams, shatters, breaks, cracks, demolishes
- 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
crush, crushed, crushing, crusher, crushingly, crushers, crushable, uncrushable, crushproof