crush

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. countable,uncountable
    — 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. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd. countable,uncountable
  3. A violent crowding. countable,uncountable
  4. A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure. countable,uncountable
    — a crush at a reception
  5. A group or gang. countable,slang,uncountable
    — 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. A crowd control barrier. countable,uncountable
  7. A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit. countable,uncountable
    — "Look," said Crabbe, warm orange crush in his hand.
  8. An infatuation with somebody one is not dating. countable,informal,uncountable
    — I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
  9. An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.; The human object of such infatuation or affection. broadly,countable,informal,uncountable
    — He took his crush out for dinner.
  10. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling. countable,uncountable
  11. A party or festive function. countable,dated,uncountable
    — Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.
  12. The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place. Australia,countable,uncountable
  13. 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. uncountable
    — black crush; white crush
  14. A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing. uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. 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
  2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
    — to crush quartz
  3. To overwhelm by pressure or weight. figuratively
    — After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
  4. To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.). colloquial,figuratively
    — They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!
  5. To oppress or grievously burden.
  6. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
    — The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
  7. To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force. intransitive
    — an eggshell crushes easily
  8. To feel infatuation or unrequited love. intransitive,transitive
    — She's crushing on him.
  9. 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).
  10. To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display. transitive
    — My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.

词形变化

crushes plural crushes present,singular,third-person crushing participle,present crushed participle,past crushed past

词汇关系

近义词
pulverise slay at kill ace
下位词
squish
衍生词
cattle crush crush barrier crush cage crush depth crushee crush hat crushlike crush load crush party crush pen crushproof crush room crush syndrome crush-worthy crushworthy crush zone fruit crush girl-crush girl crush livestock crush man crush noncrush becrush bone-crushing dog croggle crushability crushable crush a cup crushed sugar crushed velvet crusher crushing crush it crush on crush out recrush soul-crushing toe-crushing uncrush

词源

词源 1
From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *crusciō (“to crush”), from Frankish *krustijan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”), from Proto-Germanic *kreustaną (“to crush, grind, strike, smash”).
Cognate with Middle Low German tôkrosten (“to crush, shatter”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”), Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to gnash”). Akin also to Middle Dutch crosen (“to bruise, crush”), Middle Low German krossen, krö̂sen, tôkrö̂sen (“to break, shatter”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”).
词源 2
From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *crusciō (“to crush”), from Frankish *krustijan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”), from Proto-Germanic *kreustaną (“to crush, grind, strike, smash”).
Cognate with Middle Low German tôkrosten (“to crush, shatter”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”), Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to gnash”). Akin also to Middle Dutch crosen (“to bruise, crush”), Middle Low German krossen, krö̂sen, tôkrö̂sen (“to break, shatter”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”).
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