Crush

Definition: Crush

Crush

Noun

1. Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated.

2. A dense crowd of people.

3. Temporary love of an adolescent.

4. The act of crushing.

Verb

1. Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists".

2. To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon".

3. Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game".

4. Break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy".

5. Humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation".

6. Crush or bruise; "jam a toe".

7. Make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination".

8. Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Crush

Assemblage

Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness.

Clothing

Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino.

Contraction

Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Disappointment

Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish).

Disorder

Phrase: the cart before the horse; gr/hysteron proteron/gr chaos is come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds ".

Hopelessness

Inspire despair, drive to despair; Noun: disconcert; dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes; hope against hope.

Humility

Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.

Pulverulence

Reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attenuate .

Severity

Assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter; (pitiless) a.

Crosswords: Crush

I discovered it had a crush on me. (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

When they find us, they will crush us, grind us into little pieces, then blast us into oblivion (Episode I: The Phantom Menace; writing credit: George Lucas.)

That Backstreet boy clone you've had a crush on for years (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos)

He missed his chances to crush Lee at Gettsyburg (The Living Daylights; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Crush, wait (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton)

Crush me (Crush; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

Gotta crush on you and that is true to me (One In A Million; performing artist: Aaliyah)

It might seem like a crush (Oops!... I Did It Again; performing artist: Britney Spears)

Everything is frail, I desolate, crush, and burn (Warheart; performing artist: Children)

I had a crush before (Can I Get Your Number(A Girl Like You); performing artist: No Authority)

Crush Proof (1972)

Lemon Crush (2002)

Crush (2000)

Just a Little Crush (1996)

#1 Crush (performing artist: Garbage)

Crush (performing artist: Jennifer Paige)

Crush (performing artist: Mandy Moore)

Crush On You (performing artist: The Jets)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Adrianople Ad 378: The Goths Crush Rome's Legions (Campaign, 84) (reference)

• Crush Depth (reference)

• Girl Reporter Snags Crush (Get Real, No. 4) (reference)

• Secret Crush (So Little Time, 6) (reference)

• The Crush (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Grape Crush Report Bulletin (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Crush (reference)

• Blue Crush (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Crush (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• WWE Crush Hour (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Bosch 1610793002 16-1/2' Crush Proof Hose (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The lobster's large claw can crush crabs, clams and fingers. Homarus americanus. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Manpower. Negro arsenal workers. Workers of many races contribute their skills to help crush the Axis. Six months after he graduated from high school, Robert Mason was speeding war production in a large Eastern arsenal of democracy. This Negro worker is a. Credit: Library of Congress.

Help crush the menace of the seas - buy liberty bonds / J.L. Grosse. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crush the Prussian--Buy a bond--3rd Liberty Loan. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He had a crimson waistcoat, and those words which crush everything

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

To lessen the chance of contact with the bacterium, try not to crush the tick's body or handle the tick with bare fingers. (references)

Do not squeeze, crush, or puncture the body of the tick because its fluids (saliva, body fluids, gut contents) may contain infectious organisms. (references)

Economic History

Poland

On December 12-13, the regime declared martial law, under which the army and special riot police were used to crush the union. (references)

Venezuela

Considering the high costs of production (including power, labor, security expenses and others), it is more cost-effective to import soybean meal than to crush it domestically. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "crush": car crush ♦ crush badly ♦ crush bar ♦ crush barrier ♦ Crush hat ♦ crush in ♦ crush into pieces ♦ crush out ♦ crush room ♦ crush smb. ♦ Crush Syndrome ♦ crush underfoot ♦ crush up ♦ fruit crush ♦ have a crush on ♦ have a crush on smb. ♦ orange crush ♦ stone crush ♦ To crush a cup ♦ To crush out. Additional references.

Beginning with "crush": crush-barriered, crush-hat, crush-injury, crush-land, crush-load, crush-proof.

Albanian

zhubrosem, zhubros (corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, dishevel, wrinkle), thërrmoj (comminute, crumb, crumble, fritter, mince, pestle), tërheqje (affinity, allurement, appeal, appetence, appetency, attraction, attractiveness, draw, drawing, enchantment, enticement, haul, jerk, lure, magnetization, pull, pullback, recall, recession, recoil, retirement, retraction, retreat, revocation, strain, stretch, tow, traction, tug, withdrawal), strydh, shtypje (dint, oppression, press, pressure, printing, repression, squeeze, suppression, transcription, trituration), shtyp (bruise, clench, compact, Dent, depress, die, grind, newspapers, oppress, organ, override, pestle, pound, press, print, push down, quash, quell, repress, run down, run over, scotch, squash, squeeze, stamp, step, strike off, suppress, swat, trample, trample down, triturate, type, tyrannize), shtrydhje (compression, extrusion, wring), shpartalloj (discomfit, hammer, rout, scatter, shatter, smash, whitewash), lëng frutash, dëshirë e fortë (thirst, unction, urge), dërrmoj (contuse, drub, grind, hammer, mangle, overcome, plough under, smash, whelm, wipe the floor with), bluaj (Bray, digest, flour, grind, mill, turn over). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), ‏إنطحن, ‏إفتتان (fascination, ravishment, rhapsody, translation), ‏الشخص المفتن به, ‏جرش (grind, grinding, mash, mashing, pound, rice), ‏جعد (corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, frizz, frizzy, furrow, ruckle, ruffle, rumple), ‏جمهور محتشد, ‏طحن (flour, grin, grind, grinding, grist, mill, powder, pulverize), ‏إعجاب (admiration, appreciation), ‏عصير فاكهة (syrup), ‏كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crash, defeat, double, fold, fraction, fracture, fracturing, infringe, pleat, rout, shatter, shattering, smash, smashing, tuck, vanquish, violate), ‏تعلق (affection, appertain, attach, become attached, cherish, cleave, concern, depend, fixation, hold of smth., pertain, respect, snag, stick by smb., touch, treasure), ‏حشر (cram, poke, push, ram, squash, stick, thrust), ‏ولوع (penchant, predilection, use), ‏قرش (munch, piaster), ‏قضم (bite, bite into, bite nails, bite off, biting, champ, chew, gnaw, munch, nibble, prey, snap, worry at), ‏قهر (beat, compulsion, conquer, defeat, defeating, force, get the better of, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, subdual, subdue, subjugate, subjugation, tame, vanquish), ‏قمع (bridle, check, funnel, put down, quash, quell, repress, repression, restrain, stamp down, subdue, suppress, suppression), ‏عصر (age, compress, compressing, date, eon, epoch, era, period, press, ream, squeeze, strain, time, update, wring). (various references)

Basque

eho (crush to, grind to, mill to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

унищожавам (annihilate, consume, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), смачквам (crease, jam out, press, ruck, rumple, scrunch, smash, squash, wad), разтрошавам (moulder away, shatter), разбиване (crushing, hack, milling), тълпа (cloud, concourse, cram, crowd, drove, herd, host, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble, resort, rout, ruck, shoal, squash, throng, train, troop), купон (coupon), очуквам (hammer, hew, knock about, lay flat), натъпквам (bulge, bung, compress, cram, fill in, imbed, impact, jam, lumber, pack, pack in, pump in, ram, stuff, tamp), много гости, любов (amour, fancy, flame, heart, love, love affair, partiality), плодов сок (squash), изстисквам (press, press out, sap, squeeze, wring). (various references)

Chinese 

軋 (in the first place), �"碎 (brittle, fragile, friable), �"碎 . (various references)

Czech

zmuchlat (Crinkle, crumple, rumple), zmařit (baffle, destroy, ditch, foil, frustrate, scotch, stave off, thwart, upset), zmaèkat se (crease, crumple), zhatit (confound), vecpat (crib, jam, tuck), tlaèenice (crowd, hustle, jam, jamming, overcrowding, squash, squeeze, throng), roztlouci (grind, pound, pulp), rozmaèkat (mash, squash), rozdrtit (annihilate, demolish, devastate, flatten, powder, vanquish, whack), potlaèit (contain, cork up, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, scotch, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, tame), potřít, nával (flush, influx, paroxysm, squash, squeeze, surge). (various references)

Danish

knuse (shatter, smash). (various references)

Dutch

toeloop (flood, high tide), run, aandrang (access, congestion, impetus, impulse, insistence, pressure, urgency). (various references)

Esperanto

pisti (pound), frakasi (shatter, smash), alkuro. (various references)

Faeroese

sora (shatter, smash), smildra (shatter, smash), mjølva (pound), knúsa (grind, pulverize, shatter, smash). (various references)

Farsi 

فشردن (Pressure, Squeeze, Tighten, Twitch, Wad, Wring), پیروزشدن بر (Overcome, Vanquish), چلاندن (Squeeze, Wring), له شدن , خردشدن (Crackup, Crumble, Crunch), باصداشکستن . (various references)

Finnish

survoa (pound), murskata (break, shatter, smash). (various references)

French

piler, fracasser, foule (crowd, crowding), broyer, briser. (various references)

German

zerstoßen (crush up, damage, pound, pounding, scuff), zerstampfen (bruise, mash, pound, pounding, stamp on, to trample down, trample on), zerschmettern (shatter, smash, to dash to pieces, to shatter, to smash, to smash to pieces), zermalmen (crunch, grind, pound, shatter, smash, squelch, to crunch, to squelch), zerdrücken (crease, crumple, mash, pulp, squash, to crush). (various references)

Greek 

συνθλίβω (squash, squelch). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעסוס (squeeze), לרסק (mangle, mash, smash), לרצץ (oppress), לרטש (mangle, shred, tear to pieces), לרוצץ (oppress, rush to and fro), ל�"וש (flail, mill, pound, thrash, thresh), ל�"וך (pound), לכות (beat, destroy, pound), ת�"חוקת (congestion, jam, overcrowding), לכתת (pound), למלול (rub, scrape), לקמט (crumple, furrow, ruckle, wrinkle), לקמוט (shrivel, wrinkle), לשבר (break, demolish, shatter, smash, wreck), לשפוף (rub), ללחוץ (force, jam, oppress, press, push, stress), למסמס (dissolve, soothe, squeeze, thaw), למחוץ (bruise, crumple, mangle, maul, overwhelm, smite, squash, wound), למעוך (bruise, press, pulverize, squash, squeeze, stub), לכתוש (mash, pound, powder, stamp). (various references)

Hungarian

tolongás (bustle, crowd, general rush, jam, press, rush, squash, squeeze), tolakodás (assertiveness, importunity, indiscretion, intrusion, jostling, obtrusion, self-assertion), szétnyomás, szétmorzsolás, kisajtolt gyümölcslé, összenyomás (compression, squeeze, squeezing), összemorzsolás. (various references)

Indonesian

penggencetan, menggilas (break up, see: gilas), menggerus (bray, grind), gilas (cross over, overrun, pulverise, run over), ganyang (devour, eat raw, eliminate, smash). (various references)

Italian

calca (congestion, crowd, huddle, jam, mob, rabble, squash, squeeze, throng), schiacciare (cave, clash, crack, crepitate, jam, mash, overwhelm, pinch, press, push down, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, swat), folla (accumulation, crowd, drove, heap, host, huddle, mass, mob, multitude, pile, rabble, throng), frantumare (break up, crumble, grind, pestle, rag, rupture, shatter, shiver, slab, smash, stamp, to shatter), frantumazione (abrasion, cracking, crushing, fragmentation, grinding, milling, pulverisation, regrinding, scrap grinding, scrap reduction, size reduction), infatuazione (infatuation), pigiare (jam, pack, press, push, ram, rush, tamp, tread), accasciare (fall, lose heart, prostrate, wear out), schiacciamento (blackening, crushing), tritare (chop, chop up, grind, hash, kibble, mangle, mash, mince), schiacciatura (pinch, rolling, rub, scuff mark), spiegazzare (crease, crumple, get crumpled, screw up), spremuta (juice), stritolare (grind), strizzare (squeeze, wring), travaglio (anguish, distress, labor, labour, pain, suffering, trouble), quantit� (assemblage, batch, bulk, bunch, content, crowd, deal, heap, lot, mass, more, number, quantity, sum). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'�ち� �る (defeat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うちやぶる (defeat, to hit). (various references)

Korean 

으깸 (Squashing). (various references)

Manx

jingey (cram, crowd, crowd up, crowding, embed, jam, let in, move along, press, press forward, quoin, ram home, shove, shove forward, shoving, throng, thronging, wedge; indentation, wedging), jing (ding, wedge), creujey, creujaghey, caagh, broojey (bruise, compound, compress, cram, crunch, mash, pound, press, pulverization, pulverize, push, ram, squash, squelch, stamping), broo (bruise, buzz, contusion, cram, crunch, grind, pounding, press, pressure, push, ring, squash). (various references)

Maya

pech (to crush). (various references)

Norwegian

presse (extort), knuse. (various references)

Occitan

mòler (grind, mill). (various references)

Pig Latin

ushcray.(various references)

Portuguese

quebrar (basil, be bankrupt, breach, break, chip, crack, disintegrate, disrupt, flaw, fracture, grind, knap, knock in, outbreak, shatter, smash, split, violate), esmagar (bash, basil, bray, break, bruise, jam, kibble, lead on, mash, meal, overwhelm, pound, press, pulverize, shatter, smash, squash, squelch, suppress, triturate, whelm), esmagamento (squeeze), britar (basil, grind, knap, pound, shatter, smash). (various references)

Romanian

concasa (break, knap), copleşi (flood, heap, invade, load, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, pelt, prostrate, shower, smother, stun, whelm), paraliza (cripple, cut, hough, neutralize, palsy, paralyse, paralyze, transfix), înghesuialã (rush, sardine, squash), aglomeraţie (agglomeration, concourse, cram, crowd, throng), şifona (cockle, crease, crumple), dãrâma (annihilate, batter, blight, break down, crack, crumble, demolish, destroy, frustrate, pull down, raze, ruin, shatter, throw down, wreck), mãcina (Bray, bruise, eat, fester, flour, grain, grind, mill), îmbulzealã (cram, hustle, rush, scrimmage, throng), nimici (annihilate, bear, blight, cut, dash, destroy, do smb. in, exterminate, extinguish, kill, overwhelm, raze, scathe, smash, undo, unmake, wipe out, wither), zdrobire (crunch, squash, the wreck of his hopes), ruşina (abash, confuse, shame), sparge (annihilate, batter, break, burst, chip away, chop, crack, cut, dash, destroy, flaw, pick, rip, smash, snap, splinter, split), stoarce (drain, exhaust, express, extort, extort from, fleece, force, milk, pinch, press, screw, soak, squeeze, swindle, twist, wring), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), strivi (destroy, squash), supune (bend, bring under, defeat, examine, keep under, overpower, present, propose, propound, reflect, subdue, subjugate, vanquish, win), zdrobi (break, bruise, crunch, defeat, demolish, destroy, grind, mash, pound, squash, squelch), mototoli (Crinkle, crumple, Rive, ruffle, rumple, tumble). (various references)

Russian 

уничтожать (annihilate, avoid, destroy, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill out, obliterate, uncreate, wipe out), смять (crumple), раут, раздавливание (crushing), раздавить (run down, smash), фруктовый сок (juice), толочь (bruise, comminute, pestle, stamp), грохот (bolt, clatter, crash, cribble, din, grate, noise, peal, rattle, screen, thunder), мять (crease, crumple, mill, rumple), прием (appointment, dose, ploy, recept, reception, recipiency, stag party, stroke), дробить дробление, давка (cram, crowding, jam, press, squeeze), давить (bear, press, press upon, squash, trample, tread). (various references)

Scottish

brùth (bruise, pound). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zgnječiti (jam, squash), zdrobiti (crunch, triturate), vreva (throng, tumult), tucati (mash, pestle), smrskati (smash), slomiti (break, crack, destroy, fracture, shatter), skrhati (overwhelm, shatter), razmrskati, gužva (affray, brawl, crowd, jam, melee, pother, row, shindy, squeeze, stir, tussle), gnječenje (kneading), drobiti (crumble, fritter). (various references)

Spanish

crecimiento urbano, caída (collapse, crash, decadence, decadency, demise, digression, disgrace, downfall, drop, fall, falling, gradient, hang, plunge, sag, setback, spill, taste, toss, tumble), caseta de retención (cattle crush, crate, holding crate), compresión (compression), chafado (rub, sagged, scrub mark, scuff mark, sunken-in), fracasar (abort, break down, bust, come to grief, come unstuck, fail, fall apart, fall down, fall through, founder, go awry, go phut, go under, miscarry, pip), exprimir (dry, express, press, press out, squeeze, squeeze out, wring, wring out), estrujar (bruise, crowd, crumple, drain, mash, press, squeeze), estregadura (rub, scrub mark, scuff mark), triturar (pulverize, scrunch, triturate), infatuación (conceit, infatuation), abrumar (assail, exhaust, incommode, oppress, overwhelm, swamp, weigh down), jaula de retención (cattle crush, crate, holding crate), machacar (carry on, grind, harp on, natter, peg away, pound, pound away, pulverize, slash, stomp), aplastar (drive over, overwhelm, smash, squash, squelch, swat), apabullar (squash), aglomeración (agglomerate, agglomeration, congestion, conglomeration, jam, packing), aciberar (grind, kibble). (various references)

Sranan

masi (mast, shatter, smash). (various references)

Swedish

krossa (Bray, break, bruise, crash, crunch, dash, flatten, fracture, mill, pulverize, quash, scotch, scrunch, shatter, smash, squelch, steamroller). (various references)

Turkish

tutku (addiction, ambition, bug, cult, desire, dotage, fervency, indulgence, pash, passion, penchant, rage), sıkmak (ail, bore, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constipate, constrict, cumber, depress, distress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, hold tight, incommode, irk, jam, load, make fast, mope, oppress, pinch, press, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, compress, constrict, crowd, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, pinch, ply, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge, weigh), parçalanmak (break, break to pieces, break up, come apart, crash, crumble, decay, digest, disintegrate, disrupt, fall to pieces, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, rend, rupture, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, Spall, splinter, split, split off), meyve suyu (fruit juice, juice, squash), kalabalık (army, assemblage, cohort, concourse, congested, congestion, cram, crop, crowd, crowded, drove, flock, gaggle, gathering, hive, horde, host, huddle, legion, mob, multitude, multitudinous, populous, press, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, squash, throng, thronged, wilderness), kahretmek (blow, confound, oppress, overwhelm), kırılmak (be broken, be hurt, be offended, be piqued at, break, break off, chip, crash, explode, fracture, go to pieces, offend, Rive, shatter, sink, snap), itişmek (jostle), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), ezme (crushing, grinding, mash, mashing, paste, pate, pomace, pulverization, puree, scrunch, spoon meat), buruşmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, pucker, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), baskı (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, crackdown, discipline, duress, edition, force, heat, impression, leverage, oppression, piezo-, press, press up, pressure, print, printing, repression, restraint, screw, squeeze, stress, suppression, the press, thrust, typographic, urgency), aşk (adoration, amorous, amour, gallantry, love, passion), öğütmek (flour, grain, granulate, grind, mill, triturate). (various references)

Turkmen 

maяdalamak (grind), kьlkelemek (grind), itniюik (squash), dyknyюyk (crowding). (various references)

Ukrainian

роздавлювати, роздавлювання, фруктовий сік (nectar), штовханина (commotion, cram, hustle, jostle, jumble, squash, throng), крушити (smash down), м'ятися (crease, crumple), м'яти (brake, champ, crumple, rumple, wrinkle), знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither), давка (crowding, press), давити (nuddle, press, tread). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chen chúc, sự vắt (expression, squeeze, wring, wrung), sự nghiến, sự ép (compression, expression, press, reduction, squeeze), sự đè nát đám đông. (various references)

Welsh

ysigo (bruise, sprain), gwasgu (press, squeeze, wring). (various references)

sud. (various references)

ghreu-. (various references)

calca, calcabant, calcabatur, calcabis, calcabit, calcabitis, calcabitur, calcabunt, calcandi, calcant, calcantes, calcantibus, calcantium, calcare, calcat, calcator, calcatur, calcatus, calcaverit, calcaverunt, calcavi, calcavit, calces, calcet, comminuam, comminuens, comminuerentur, comminuerunt, comminues, comminuet, comminuetis, comminuetur, comminuisset, comminuit, comminuite, comminuta, comminutus, conculca, conculcabas, conculcabat, conculcabatur, conculcabimus, conculcabis, conculcabit, conculcabitur, conculcabunt, conculcans, conculcantes, conculcare, conculcarent, conculcari, conculcastis, conculcata, conculcatam, conculcati, conculcatum, conculcaverit, conculcaverunt, conculcavi, conculcavit, conculcem, conculcent, conculcet, conculcetur, conpresserit, conpresserunt, conprimaris, conprimebant, conprimentem, conprimerent, conprimit, conprimunt, contribulasti, contribulati, contribulatus, contribules, contribulet, contrita, contritae, contritaeque, contriti, contritis, contrito, contritos, contritum, contritus, contriverim, contriverit, contrivero, contriverunt, contrivi, contrivisset, contrivisti, contrivit, contuderis, contusum, dele, deleam, deleamus, deleant, deleantur, deleas, deleat, deleatur, delebimus, delebis, delebit, delebitque, delebitur, delebo, delebor, delebunt, delebuntur, delendam, delendi, delendos, delens, deleo, delere, delerem, delerent, deleret, deleri, deleta, deletae, deleti, deletis, deleverit, deleverunt, delevi, delevimus, delevit, delevitque, fractae, fracti, fractione, fractionis, fractis, fracto, fractum, fractura, fracturam, fractus, frange, frangebat, frangendum, frangensque, frangent, frangentes, frangerentur, frangeret, franges, frangetur, frangimus, frangit, fregerunt, fregi, fregisset, fregit, frendo, infringere, infringetur, obruent, obruentur, obruerunt, obruet, obruetur, obrutus, obtrivit, oppressa, oppresserat, oppresserunt, oppressi, oppressisti, oppressit, oppresso, oppressos, oppressum, oppressura, opprimamus, opprimantur, opprimaris, opprimas, opprimat, opprimatis, opprimebant, opprimens, opprimentes, opprimere, opprimerent, opprimes, opprimet, opprimetur, opprimi, opprimitur, opprimunt, revincebat, tunde, tunsis, tunso, tunsum. (various references)

croisir, esquatir. (various references)

debriser. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.