| crush | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. crush, crushed leather | leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated. |
| ~ leather | an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning. |
| n. (group) | 2. crush, jam, press | a dense crowd of people. |
| ~ crowd | a large number of things or people considered together.; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" |
| ~ snarl-up, traffic jam | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move. |
| n. (feeling) | 3. calf love, crush, infatuation, puppy love | temporary love of an adolescent. |
| ~ love | a strong positive emotion of regard and affection.; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love" |
| n. (act) | 4. compaction, crunch, crush | the act of crushing. |
| ~ compressing, compression | applying pressure. |
| ~ pulverisation, pulverization, grind, mill | the act of grinding to a powder or dust. |
| v. (social) | 5. crush, oppress, suppress | come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority.; "The government oppresses political activists" |
| ~ quash, repress, subdue, subjugate, keep down, reduce | put down by force or intimidation.; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" |
| v. (contact) | 6. crush, mash, squash, squeeze, squelch | to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition.; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" |
| ~ wring | twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid.; "wring the towels" |
| ~ press | exert pressure or force to or upon.; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot" |
| ~ stamp | crush or grind with a heavy instrument.; "stamp fruit extract the juice" |
| ~ steamroller | crush with a steamroller as if to level.; "steamroller the road" |
| ~ tread | crush as if by treading on.; "tread grapes to make wine" |
| ~ telescope | crush together or collapse.; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack" |
| v. (competition) | 7. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | 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" |
| ~ win | be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious.; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" |
| ~ outscore, outpoint | score more points than one's opponents. |
| ~ walk over | beat easily.; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship" |
| ~ eliminate | remove from a contest or race.; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race" |
| ~ worst, mop up, whip, pip, rack up | defeat thoroughly.; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" |
| ~ whomp | beat overwhelmingly. |
| ~ get the best, have the best, overcome | overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome.; "Heart disease can get the best of us" |
| ~ spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle | defeat disastrously. |
| ~ get the jump | be there first.; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors" |
| ~ chicane, chouse, jockey, cheat, shaft, screw | defeat someone through trickery or deceit. |
| ~ outsmart, outwit, circumvent, outfox, overreach, beat | beat through cleverness and wit.; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" |
| ~ outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount | be or do something to a greater degree.; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" |
| ~ defeat, get the better of, overcome | win a victory over.; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" |
| ~ surmount, master, overcome, get over, subdue | get on top of; deal with successfully.; "He overcame his shyness" |
| ~ best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump | get the better of.; "the goal was to best the competition" |
| ~ outfight | to fight better than; get the better of.; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans" |
| ~ overmaster, overpower, overwhelm | overcome by superior force. |
| ~ checkmate, mate | place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game.; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" |
| ~ immobilise, immobilize | make defenseless. |
| ~ outplay | excel or defeat in a game.; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers" |
| ~ drub, lick, clobber, cream, bat, thrash | beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" |
| v. (change) | 8. crush | break into small pieces.; "The car crushed the toy" |
| ~ fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up | break or cause to break into pieces.; "The plate fragmented" |
| ~ bruise | break up into small pieces for food preparation.; "bruise the berries with a wooden spoon and strain them" |
| v. (emotion) | 9. crush, demolish, smash | humiliate or depress completely.; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her" |
| ~ abase, chagrin, humiliate, humble, mortify | cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" |
| v. (contact) | 10. crush, jam | crush or bruise.; "jam a toe" |
| ~ bruise, contuse | injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of.; "I bruised my knee" |
| v. (competition) | 11. break down, crush | make ineffective.; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (change) | 12. crush | become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure.; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall" |
| ~ come apart, break, fall apart, split up, separate | become separated into pieces or fragments.; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" |
| pay out | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. disburse, pay out | expend, as from a fund. |
| ~ pay | give money, usually in exchange for goods or services.; "I paid four dollars for this sandwich"; "Pay the waitress, please" |
| squash | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. squash, squash vine | any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits. |
| ~ squash | edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable. |
| ~ cucurbita, genus cucurbita | type genus of the Cucurbitaceae. |
| ~ autumn pumpkin, cucurbita pepo, pumpkin, pumpkin vine | a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes. |
| ~ cucurbita pepo melopepo, summer squash, summer squash vine | any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden. |
| ~ winter squash, winter squash plant | any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall. |
| ~ vine | a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface. |
| n. (food) | 2. squash | edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable. |
| ~ veg, vegetable, veggie | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant. |
| ~ summer squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden. |
| ~ winter squash | any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months. |
| ~ squash, squash vine | any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits. |
| n. (act) | 3. squash, squash rackets, squash racquets | a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets. |
| ~ court game | an athletic game played on a court. |
| ~ undercut, cut | (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball.; "cuts do not bother a good tennis player" |
| ~ drive | (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash). |
| ~ forehand, forehand shot, forehand stroke | (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash). |
| ~ forehand drive | (sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash). |
| ~ serve, service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play.; "his powerful serves won the game" |
| ~ fault | (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area).; "he served too many double faults" |
| ~ rally, exchange | (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes.; "after a short rally Connors won the point" |
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