Synonyms and Antonyms of crush

synonym (synonym of crush)

  • (noun.substance)
    crushed leather
    leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated (noun.substance)
     
  • (noun.group)
    jam, press
    a dense crowd of people (noun.group)
     
  • (noun.feeling)
    calf love, infatuation, puppy love
    temporary love of an adolescent (noun.feeling)
     
  • (noun.act)
    compaction, crunch
    the act of crushing (noun.act)
     
  • (verb.social)
    oppress, suppress
    come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority (verb.social)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    mash, squash, squeeze, squelch
    to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish
    come out better in a competition, race, or conflict (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.emotion)
    demolish, smash
    humiliate or depress completely (verb.emotion)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    jam
    crush or bruise (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    break down
    make ineffective (verb.competition)
     

hypernym (crush IS A KIND OF .... relation)

  • a dense crowd of people (noun.group)
    crowd
    a large number of things or people considered together (noun.group)
     
  • become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure (verb.change)
    break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up
    become separated into pieces or fragments (verb.change)
     
  • break into small pieces (verb.change)
    break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize
    break or cause to break into pieces (verb.change)
     
  • come out better in a competition, race, or conflict (verb.competition)
    defeat, get the better of, overcome
    win a victory over (verb.competition)
     
  • crush or bruise (verb.contact)
    bruise, contuse
    injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of (verb.contact)
     
  • humiliate or depress completely (verb.emotion)
    abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify
    cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of (verb.emotion)
     
  • leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated (noun.substance)
    leather
    an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning (noun.substance)
     
  • make ineffective (verb.competition)
    alter, change, modify
    cause to change; make different; cause a transformation (verb.change)
     
  • temporary love of an adolescent (noun.feeling)
    love
    a strong positive emotion of regard and affection (noun.feeling)
     
  • the act of crushing (noun.act)
    compressing, compression
    applying pressure (noun.act)
     
  • to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition (verb.contact)
    press
    exert pressure or force to or upon (verb.contact)
     

hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF crush relation)

  • a dense crowd of people (noun.group)
    snarl-up, traffic jam
    a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move (noun.group)
     
  • break into small pieces (verb.change)
    bruise
    break up into small pieces for food preparation (verb.change)
     
  • come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority (verb.social)
    keep down, quash, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate
    put down by force or intimidation (verb.social)
     
  • come out better in a competition, race, or conflict (verb.competition)
    outpoint, outscore
    score more points than one's opponents (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    walk over
    beat easily (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    eliminate
    remove from a contest or race (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    mop up, pip, rack up, whip, worst
    defeat thoroughly (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    whomp
    beat overwhelmingly (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    get the best, have the best, overcome
    overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    rout, spread-eagle, spreadeagle
    defeat disastrously (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    get the jump
    be there first (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft
    defeat someone through trickery or deceit (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass
    be or do something to a greater degree (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    get over, master, overcome, subdue, surmount
    get on top of; deal with successfully (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump
    get the better of (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    outfight
    to fight better than; get the better of (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    overmaster, overpower, overwhelm
    overcome by superior force (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    checkmate, mate
    place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    immobilise, immobilize
    make defenseless (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.competition)
    outplay
    excel or defeat in a game (verb.competition)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash
    beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight (verb.contact)
     
  • the act of crushing (noun.act)
    grind, mill, pulverisation, pulverization
    the act of grinding to a powder or dust (noun.act)
     
  • to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition (verb.contact)
    wring
    twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    stamp
    crush or grind with a heavy instrument (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    steamroller
    crush with a steamroller as if to level (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    tread
    crush as if by treading on (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    telescope
    crush together or collapse (verb.contact)
     

entail (entailment relations of crush)

  • come out better in a competition, race, or conflict (verb.competition)
    win
    be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious (verb.competition)
     

verb group (crush is verb group of ....)

derivation (.... is derived from crush)

  • a dense crowd of people (noun.group)
    chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram, wad
    crowd or pack to capacity (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.motion)
    press
    crowd closely (verb.motion)
     
  • break into small pieces (verb.change)
    compaction, crunch, crush
    the act of crushing (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.artifact)
    crusher
    a device that crushes something (noun.artifact)
     
  • come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority (verb.social)
    oppression, subjugation
    the act of subjugating by cruelty (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    crushing, quelling, stifling, suppression
    forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.person)
    oppressor
    a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    suppresser, suppressor
    someone who suppresses (noun.person)
     
  • (adj.all)
    oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous
    marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    suppressive
    tending to suppress (adj.all)
     
  • come out better in a competition, race, or conflict (verb.competition)
    beating, whipping
    the act of overcoming or outdoing (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.event)
    debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping
    a sound defeat (noun.event)
     
  • (noun.person)
    conqueror, vanquisher
    someone who is victorious by force of arms (noun.person)
     
  • (adj.all)
    beatable, vanquishable, vincible
    susceptible to being defeated (adj.all)
     
  • humiliate or depress completely (verb.emotion)
    demolition
    the act of demolishing (noun.act)
     
  • make ineffective (verb.competition)
    breakdown, dislocation
    the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue (noun.act)
     
  • temporary love of an adolescent (noun.feeling)
    infatuate
    arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way (verb.emotion)
     
  • the act of crushing (noun.act)
    bray, comminute, crunch, grind, mash
    reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    crush
    break into small pieces (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    compact, compress, pack together
    make more compact by or as if by pressing (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    bundle, compact, pack, wad
    compress into a wad (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    crush, mash, squash, squeeze, squelch
    to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition (verb.contact)
     
  • to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition (verb.contact)
    squeezer
    a kitchen utensil for squeezing juice from fruit (noun.artifact)
     
  • (noun.event)
    squeeze, wring
    a twisting squeeze (noun.event)
     
  • (noun.food)
    mash
    mixture of ground animal feeds (noun.food)
     
synonym hypernym hyponym entail verb group derivation crushed leather jam calf love infatuation compaction crunch compressing compression love crowd leather break up grind mill snarl-up traffic jam bruise outpoint win beat circumvent outfox outsmart outwit overreach bray comminute compact bundle pack mash
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