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crushingverbpresent participle of crush to cause to become a pulpy massdark-colored grapes that will be crushed to make red wine mashing, pulping, squashing pressing, squeezingbeating, pounding, powdering, pulverizing to put a stop to (something) by the use of forcethe government is doing everything to crush the latest guerrilla uprising clamping down (on), cracking down (on), putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, silencing, slapping down, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, subduing, suppressing dousing(also dowsing), extinguishing, putting out, quenchingsmothering, stifling, strangling, throttlingannihilating, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, nuking, rubbing out, ruining, smashing, wasting, wreckingexterminating, obliterating, wiping outconquering, dominating, overcoming, overpowering, overwhelming, subduing, subjugating, vanquishing sitting on abetting, aiding, assisting, backing, helping, propping up, supportingfomenting, inciting, instigating, provoking, stirring, whipping (up)advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting to reduce to fine particlescrushed the baby's medicine tablet and mixed it with applesauce atomizing, beating, braying, comminuting, disintegrating, grinding, milling, mulling, pounding, powdering, pulverizing grating, kibblingcrumbling, crunchingbreaking, busting, dashing, fracturing, fragmentingshattering, smashing, splinteringmicronizing to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stressthe terrible news of her death simply crushed the entire family devastating, flooring, grinding (down), oppressing, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, prostrating, snowing under, swamping, whelming deluging, drowning, sinkingconfuting, defeating, refutingbreaking, demoralizing, distressing, disturbing, rocking, shattering, staggering, throwing, unmanning, unnerving, upsetting to apply external pressure on so as to force out the juice or contents ofafter crushing the grapes, let the skins soak in the juice in order to extract some color to fit (people or things) into a tight spacethe desperate refugees were crushed into the back of the truck cramming, crowding, jamming, ramming, sandwiching, shoehorning, squeezing, stuffing, wedging filling, heaping, jam-packing, loading, packing to put one's arms around and press tightlyshe tearfully crushed the child to her breast bear-hugging, clasping, embracing, enclasping, enfolding, grasping, hugging, straining clamping, clinging, cradling, grabbing, gripping, holdingbosoming, embosoming, encircling, entwining, enveloping, enwindingfolding, locking, twining, wrappingcuddling, fondling, nestling, nuzzling, patting, petting, snuggling, stroking |