- crush
- crush [n1] crowd of animate beings drove, gathering, horde, huddle, jam, multitude, party, press, push, throng, tumult; concepts 417,432 crush [n2] infatuation beguin, desire, flame, love affair, passion, puppy love*, torch; concept 20 —Ant. dislike, hate, hatred crush [v1] compress, smash beat, bray, break, bruise, buck, comminute, contriturate, contuse, crease, crowd, crumble, crunch, embrace, enfold, express, hug, jam, kablooey*, mash, pound, powder, press, pulverize, push, romp, rumple, squash, squeeze, squish, total*, trample, tread, triturate, wrinkle; concepts 208,219,246,252 —Ant. let go, release, uncompress, unwrinkle crush [v2] defeating soundly annihilate, bear down, beat, blot out*, blow away*, conquer, defeat, demolish, extinguish, force down, ice*, kill, obliterate, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, quelch, quell, reduce, ruin, squelch, stamp out*, strangle, subdue, subjugate, suppress, vanquish, wreck; concepts 95,252 —Ant. lose, surrender, yield crush [v3] humiliate abash, browbeat, chagrin, dispose of, dump, hurt, mortify, overwhelm, put away*, put down*, quash, quell, shame, suppress; concepts 7,19 —Ant. build up, compliment, encourage, inspirit, praise
New thesaurus. 2014.