Synonyms for crush
krʌʃcrush

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. crush

   To break is to divide sharply, with severance of particles, as by a blow or strain. To burst is to break by pressure from within, as a bombshell, but it is used also for the result of violent force otherwise exerted; as, to burst in a door, where the door yields as if to an explosion. To crush is to break by pressure from without, as an egg-shell. To crack is to break without complete severance of parts; a cracked cup or mirror may still hold together. Fracture has a somewhat similar sense. In a fractured limb, the ends of the broken bone may be separated, tho both portions are still retained within the common muscular tissue. A shattered object is broken suddenly and in numerous directions; as, a vase is shattered by a blow, a building by an earthquake. A shivered glass is broken into numerous minute, needle-like fragments. To smash is to break thoroughly to pieces with a crashing sound by some sudden act of violence; a watch once smashed will scarcely be worth repair. To split is to cause wood to crack or part in the way of the grain, and is applied to any other case where a natural tendency to separation is enforced by an external cause; as, to split a convention or a party. To demolish is to beat down, as a mound, building, fortress, etc.; to destroy is to put by any process beyond restoration physically, mentally, or morally; to destroy an army is so to shatter and scatter it that it can not be rallied or reassembled as a fighting force. Compare REND.

   Synonyms:
   bankrupt, break, burst, cashier, crack, demolish, destroy, fracture, rend, rive, rupture, sever, shatter, shiver, smash, split, sunder, transgress

   Antonyms:
   attach, bind, fasten, join, mend, secure, solder, unite, weld

   Preposition:
   Break to pieces, or in pieces, into several pieces (when the object is thought of as divided rather than shattered); break with a friend; from or away from a suppliant; break into a house; out of prison; break across one's knee; break through a hedge; break in upon one's retirement; break over the rules; break on or upon the shore, against the rocks.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crush

   Synonyms:
   pulverize, triturate, pound, bray, crumble, overpower, demolish

   Antonyms:
   consolidate, compact, cake, solidify, compress, amalgamate, upraise, stabilitate, aggrandize

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. crushed leather, crushnoun

   leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

   Synonyms:
   puppy love, crushed leather, jam, calf love, press, compaction, crunch, infatuation

2. crush, jam, pressnoun

   a dense crowd of people

   Synonyms:
   pressing, insistency, puppy love, military press, closet, calf love, electronic jamming, pickle, press, imperativeness, kettle of fish, infatuation, public press, mechanical press, hole, wardrobe, mess, fix, pressure, compaction, insistence, printing press, crunch, muddle, crushed leather, jam, jamming

3. puppy love, calf love, crush, infatuationnoun

   temporary love of an adolescent

   Synonyms:
   puppy love, crushed leather, jam, calf love, press, compaction, crunch, infatuation

4. crush, crunch, compactionverb

   the act of crushing

   Synonyms:
   densification, puppy love, crushed leather, jam, compression, calf love, concretion, press, compaction, crunch, infatuation

5. oppress, suppress, crushverb

   come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

   "The government oppresses political activists"

   Synonyms:
   repress, bottle up, squelch, oppress, beat, stamp down, inhibit, break down, persecute, suppress, vanquish, squeeze, demolish, shell, trounce, mash, conquer, squash, beat out, curb, jam, subdue, smash

6. squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeezeverb

   to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

   "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"

   Synonyms:
   comminute, twitch, suppress, vanquish, pressure, squish, grind, romance, rack, quell, twinge, splash, dally, hale, beat, press, jam, smash, wring, flirt, force, embrace, crunch, trounce, coquette, shove, thrust, chat up, demolish, butterfly, compress, hug, beat out, tweet, slop, mash, quench, contract, compact, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, philander, bosom, pinch, coquet, break down, slosh, coerce, oppress, wedge, squelch, bray, constrict, splosh, gouge, shell

7. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquishverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   tucker out, reproof, wash up, chide, thump out, mystify, pound, tap out, lash, mash, call on the carpet, ticktack, reprimand, pulsate, amaze, thump, flog, smash, stick, beat up, beat, trounce, outfox, thrum, husk, jam, slash, berate, lecture, strap, dumbfound, stupefy, exhaust, overreach, flap, rag, blast, oppress, outwit, bewilder, dress down, squelch, squeeze, scramble, remonstrate, flummox, vanquish, get, perplex, whip, outsmart, baffle, jaw, rebuke, pose, vex, call down, suppress, lambast, circumvent, work over, chew up, bunk, gravel, drum, squash, chew out, take to task, welt, break down, puzzle, lather, bawl out, quiver, tucker, lambaste, demolish, ticktock, beat out, have words, scold, shell, tick, nonplus

8. crushverb

   break into small pieces

   "The car crushed the toy"

   Synonyms:
   beat out, oppress, demolish, squeeze, jam, shell, vanquish, trounce, squelch, mash, squash, break down, smash, beat, suppress

9. crush, smash, demolishverb

   humiliate or depress completely

   "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"

   Synonyms:
   vanquish, pulverise, bang up, squelch, trounce, beat, break down, ruin, dash, demolish, oppress, suppress, break, smash up, destroy, pulverize, squeeze, nail, bankrupt, mash, boom, squash, beat out, shell, jam, blast, smash

10. jam, crushverb

    crush or bruise

    "jam a toe"

    Synonyms:
    vanquish, mob, wad, pile, squelch, oppress, demolish, beat, smash, mash, obturate, pack, break down, chock up, close up, block, impede, obstruct, squeeze, cram, jampack, ram, trounce, suppress, throng, squash, beat out, shell, jam, occlude

11. break down, crushverb

    make ineffective

    "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"

    Synonyms:
    vanquish, decompose, analyze, conk out, beat, fail, snap, suppress, go bad, tumble, break up, trounce, smash, give way, collapse, demolish, beat out, analyse, break, give out, crumble, go, squash, squeeze, crumple, die, dissect, break down, mash, oppress, take apart, lose it, squelch, jam, shell

12. crushverb

    become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure

    "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"

    Synonyms:
    beat out, oppress, demolish, squeeze, jam, shell, vanquish, trounce, squelch, mash, squash, break down, smash, beat, suppress

Matched Categories

1. • Break
   • Break Up
   • Bruise
   • Change
   • Crowd
   • Humiliate
   • Leather
   • Love
   • Overcome

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crushverb

   Synonyms:
   compress, squeeze, bruise, contuse

2. crushverb

   Synonyms:
   break, crumble, disintegrate, comminute, bray, CRAZE

3. crushverb

   Synonyms:
   demolish, break down

4. crushverb

   Synonyms:
   overpower, overcome, overwhelm, subdue, quell, conquer

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crushnoun

   Synonyms:
   compression, pressure, crowd

2. crushverb

   Synonyms:
   overpower, vanquish, quell, subdue, conquer, suppress, squeeze, press, compress

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "crush":

   crushing, trituration, smash, screwover, quash, pummel, squish, crushes, overwhelm, infatuation, squash, splat, destroy, grind, trample, crash

Suggested Resources

1. crush

   Song lyrics by crush -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by crush on the Lyrics.com website.

How to pronounce crush?

How to say crush in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use crush in a sentence?

1. Cathy Stephenson:

   You don't crush somebody's feelings twice.

2. Blaise Pascal:

   Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

3. Scott Doerhoff:

   They would crush the pills up and smoke them or they would crush the pills up and inject them, he had all of the skills when he came home.

4. Colonel Didier Badjeck:

   In the coming days, they will be deployed to the war zone on the border with Nigeria so that they can join our defense forces to crush and prevent incursions of Boko Haram into Cameroonian territory.

5. Ursula K. LeGuin:

   You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.