| 单词 | crush |
| 例句 | crush verb 1.•essential oils are released when the herbs are crushed:squash, squeeze, press, compress | pulp, mash, macerate, mangle | flatten, trample on, tread on | informal smush, smoosh. 2.•your dress will get crushed:crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle, crinkle, scrunch (up). 3.•crush the cookies with a rolling pin:pulverize, pound, grind, break up, smash, crumble | mill | technical comminute. 4.•he crushed her in his arms:hug, squeeze, hold tight, embrace, enfold. 5.•the new regime crushed all popular uprisings:suppress, put down, quell, quash, stamp out, put an end to, overcome, overpower, defeat, triumph over, break, repress, subdue, extinguish. 6.•Alan was crushed by her words:mortify, humiliate, abash, chagrin, deflate, flatten, demoralize, squash | devastate, shatter | informal shoot down in flames, knock the stuffing out of.▶noun 1.•the crush of people:crowd, throng, horde, swarm, sea, mass, pack, press, mob. 2.informal •a teenage crush:infatuation, obsession, love, passion | informal puppy love.WORD NOTE smush The informal cousin of crush and smash, smush is much friendlier than either. There's no evil intent with smush. You can smush a cupcake, or a couple more people into a subway car; the cupcake can still be eaten and no one needs to visit the emergency room. Smash the cupcake and it goes straight into the garbage. Crush the people, and it makes the nightly news. — EMConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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