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crushing
Overview of noun crushing
The noun crushing has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling -- (forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent")
Overview of verb crush
The verb crush has 8 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (4) oppress, suppress, crush -- (come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists")
2. (3) squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze -- (to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon")
3. (3) 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")
4. (2) crush -- (break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy")
5. crush, smash, demolish -- (humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her")
6. jam, crush -- (crush or bruise; "jam a toe")
7. break down, crush -- (make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination")
8. crush -- (become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall")
Overview of adj crushing
The adj crushing has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) crushing, devastating -- (physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crushing
1 sense of crushing
Sense 1
suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
=> prevention, bar
=> hindrance, hinderance, interference
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun crushing
1 sense of crushing
Sense 1
suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
=> crackdown
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crushing
1 sense of crushing
Sense 1
suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
=> prevention, bar
Antonyms of noun crushing
Member Holonyms of noun crushing
Substance Holonyms of noun crushing
Part Holonyms of noun crushing
Member Meronyms of noun crushing
Substance Meronyms of noun crushing
Part Meronyms of noun crushing
Meronyms of noun crushing
Holonyms of noun crushing
Attributes of noun crushing
Derived Forms of noun crushing
1 sense of crushing
Sense 1
suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
RELATED TO>(verb) crush#1
=> oppress, suppress, crush
Domain of noun crushing
Domain Terms of noun crushing
Familiarity of noun crushing
crushing used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun crushing
1 sense of crushing
Sense 1
suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
> prevention, bar
=> averting
=> debarment
=> disqualification
=> interception
=> nonproliferation, non-proliferation
=> obviation, forestalling, preclusion
=> prophylaxis
=> save
=> suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
Meronyms of noun crushing
1 sense of crushing
Holonyms of noun crushing
Grep of noun crushing
crushing
Antonyms of verb crush
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb crush
8 senses of crush
Sense 1
oppress, suppress, crush
Sense 2
squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
=> press
=> touch
Sense 3
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
=> get the better of, overcome, defeat
Sense 4
crush
=> break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
=> break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
=> change integrity
=> change
Sense 5
crush, smash, demolish
=> humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
=> hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
=> arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
=> make, create
Sense 6
jam, crush
=> bruise, contuse
=> injure, wound
=> hurt
=> indispose
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 7
break down, crush
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 8
crush
=> break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
=> change integrity
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb crush
4 of 8 senses of crush
Sense 1
oppress, suppress, crush
=> repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce
Sense 2
squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
=> wring
=> stamp
=> steamroller
=> tread
=> telescope
Sense 3
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
=> outpoint, outscore
=> walk over
=> eliminate
=> worst, pip, mop up, whip, rack up
=> whomp
=> spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout
=> get the jump
=> cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey
=> surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform
=> outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop
=> outfight
=> overpower, overmaster, overwhelm
=> checkmate, mate
=> immobilize, immobilise
=> outplay
=> cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
Sense 4
crush
=> bruise
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb crush
8 senses of crush
Sense 1
oppress, suppress, crush
Sense 2
squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
=> press
Sense 3
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
=> get the better of, overcome, defeat
Sense 4
crush
=> break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sense 5
crush, smash, demolish
=> humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
Sense 6
jam, crush
=> bruise, contuse
Sense 7
break down, crush
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 8
crush
=> break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
'Cause To' of verb crush
Derived Forms of verb crush
3 of 8 senses of crush
Sense 1
oppress, suppress, crush
RELATED TO>(noun) crushing#1
=> suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
Sense 2
squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
RELATED TO>(noun) crush#4
=> crush, crunch, compaction
RELATED TO>(noun) crusher#1
=> crusher
Sense 4
crush
RELATED TO>(noun) crush#4
=> crush, crunch, compaction
RELATED TO>(noun) crusher#1
=> crusher
Domain of verb crush
Domain Terms of verb crush
Familiarity of verb crush
crush used as a verb is common (polysemy count =8)
Sample Sentences of verb crush
8 senses of crush
Sense 1
oppress, suppress, crush
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
Sense 2
squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
*> Something ----s something
Sense 3
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
EX: The fighter managed to crush his opponent
Sense 4
crush
EX: They crush the glass tubes
Sense 5
crush, smash, demolish
EX: The bad news will crush him
Sense 6
jam, crush
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 7
break down, crush
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 8
crush
EX: The glass tubes crush
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb crush
7 of 8 senses of crush
Sense 2
squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
> press
=> squeeze
=> squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
=> crunch, cranch, craunch, grind
=> drag down, bear down, bear down on, press down on, weigh down
=> knuckle
=> push
Sense 3
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
> get the better of, overcome, defeat
=> demolish, destroy
=> beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
=> wallop
=> down
=> overrun
=> lurch, skunk
=> get the best, have the best, overcome
=> overcome, get over, subdue, surmount, master
=> rout, rout out, expel
=> upset
=> nose
=> conquer
=> survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it
Sense 4
crush
> break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
=> atomize, atomise
=> grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute
=> pound
=> sunder
=> splinter, sliver
=> rag
=> crumb
=> brecciate
=> crush
=> grate, grind
Sense 5
crush, smash, demolish
> humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
=> crush, smash, demolish
=> take down, degrade, disgrace, demean, put down
Sense 6
jam, crush
> bruise, contuse
=> jam, crush
Sense 7
break down, crush
> change, alter, modify
=> awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
=> cause to sleep
=> affect
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
=> inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
=> indispose
=> cry
=> etiolate
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> opalize, opalise
=> arterialize, arterialise
=> make, get
=> counterchange, transpose, interchange
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn
=> etiolate
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise
=> allegorize, allegorise
=> demythologize, demythologise
=> bring, land
=> coarsen
=> affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> alchemize, alchemise
=> alcoholize, alcoholise
=> shape, form
=> round off, round down, round out, round
=> suspend
=> sober
=> reconstruct
=> increase
=> ease up, ease off, let up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> commute, convert, exchange
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> unclutter, clear
=> activate
=> activate
=> activate, aerate
=> activate
=> inactivate, deactivate
=> deaden, blunt
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
=> edit, redact
=> edit, cut, edit out
=> tame, chasten, subdue
=> chasten, moderate, temper
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> wet
=> dry, dry out
=> lubricate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> spike, lace, fortify
=> weaken
=> blunt
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> unite, unify, merge
=> age
=> ripen, mature
=> antique, antiquate
=> antiquate
=> develop, make grow
=> soften
=> damage
=> ossify
=> acerbate
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> habituate, accustom
=> disorder, disarray
=> discolor
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> stain
=> hue
=> uglify
=> untune
=> adjust, set, correct
=> set
=> disqualify, unfit, indispose
=> domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
=> widen
=> dehydrogenate
=> hydrogenate
=> oxygenize, oxygenise
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten up, lighten
=> blur, blear
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
=> obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> cook
=> slenderize, slenderise
=> crack
=> dissolve, dismiss
=> end, terminate
=> demist, defog
=> condense, concentrate, contract
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, heat up
=> warm
=> boil
=> freeze
=> blister
=> switch, change over, shift
=> transpose
=> convert, change over
=> transform
=> transform
=> transform
=> transmute
=> transform, transmute, transubstantiate
=> ash
=> translate, transform
=> reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
=> convert
=> Islamize, Islamise
=> turn back, invert, reverse
=> invert
=> customize, customise
=> personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise
=> depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
=> sharpen
=> flatten, drop
=> disintegrate
=> magnetize, magnetise
=> demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss
=> simplify
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> refine
=> complicate, perplex
=> supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
=> centralize, centralise, concentrate
=> decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
=> socialize, socialise
=> fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
=> internationalize, internationalise
=> communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> bestialize, bestialise
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> Frenchify
=> civilize, civilise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> denationalize, denationalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> even, even out
=> equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate
=> stiffen
=> loosen, loose
=> tighten, fasten
=> transitivize, transitivise
=> detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise
=> thicken, inspissate
=> full
=> diversify
=> deaden
=> check, retard, delay
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
=> solvate
=> dissolve
=> validate
=> invalidate, void, vitiate
=> empty
=> fill, fill up, make full
=> saturate
=> clot, coagulate
=> louden
=> normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
=> morph
=> neutralize, neutralise
=> commercialize, commercialise, market
=> purify, purge, sanctify
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> automatize, automatise, automate
=> automatize, automatise
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> harmonize, harmonise, chord
=> polarize, polarise
=> glorify
=> contaminate
=> devalue
=> insulate
=> calcify
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> emulsify
=> demulsify
=> decarboxylate
=> nazify
=> fertilize, fecundate, fertilise
=> clarify
=> embrittle
=> mark
=> barb
=> nick
=> disable, disenable, incapacitate
=> enable
=> de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
=> tender, tenderize, tenderise
=> charge
=> sweeten
=> iodinate
=> ionate
=> archaize, archaise
=> inform
=> officialize, officialise
=> occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise
=> orientalize, orientalise
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> achromatize, achromatise
=> parallel, collimate
=> camp
=> classicize, classicise
=> conventionalize, conventionalise
=> decimalize, decimalise
=> dizzy
=> poison, envenom
=> exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify
=> glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise
=> introvert
=> laicize, laicise
=> politicize, politicise
=> radicalize
=> proof
=> romanticize, romanticise
=> rusticate
=> sauce
=> shallow, shoal
=> tense
=> steepen
=> scramble
=> unscramble
=> unsex
=> vitrify
=> pall
=> saponify
=> extend, expand
=> suspend, set aside
=> muddy
=> transform
=> lift, raise, elevate
=> harshen
=> dinge
=> demonize, demonise
=> devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise
=> etherealize, etherialise
=> immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise
=> animize, animise, animate
=> clear
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> rarefy, sublimate, subtilize
=> volatilize, volatilise
=> uniformize, uniformise
=> symmetrize, symmetrise
=> immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise
=> denature
=> denature
=> denature
=> sanitize, sanitise
=> verbify
=> shift
=> sputter
=> draw
=> make
=> dope
=> prostrate
=> excite
=> excite, energize, energise
=> shake
=> outmode
=> spice, spice up
=> shorten
=> think
=> make
=> deflate
=> inflate
=> reflate
=> digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize
=> masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
=> masculinize
=> disharmonize, dissonate
=> sexualize, sexualise
=> schematize, schematise
=> patent
=> constitutionalize, constitutionalise
=> rationalize, rationalise
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> rarefy
=> paganize, paganise
=> incandesce
=> deaminate, deaminize
=> angulate
=> circularize
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> depolarize, depolarise
=> intensify
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> legitimate
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> opacify
=> opsonize
=> militarize, militarise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> recommend
=> sentimentalize, sentimentalise
=> solemnize, solemnise
=> territorialize, territorialise
=> transaminate
=> transfigure, glorify, spiritualize
=> unsanctify
=> vesiculate
=> visualize, visualise
=> variegate
=> ventilate
=> vivify
=> vulgarise, vulgarize
=> supple
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> smut
=> still
=> weaponize
=> eroticize, sex up
=> piggyback
=> confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
=> confuse
=> tone down, moderate, tame
=> obfuscate
=> synchronize, synchronise
=> mince, soften, moderate
=> militarize, militarise
=> break down, crush
=> fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
=> touch, disturb
=> dull
=> dull, blunt
=> sharpen
=> coarsen
=> loosen
=> untie, undo, loosen
=> barb
=> string
=> straighten, straighten out
=> bring
=> mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
=> charge
=> put
=> clean, make clean
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> lower, depress
=> deform
=> break, break up
=> alter
=> decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
=> humanize, humanise
=> humble
=> estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
=> right
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> deodorize, deodorise, deodourise
=> develop
=> blur
=> blind
=> change intensity
=> change taste
=> capture
=> lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
=> restore, reinstate, reestablish
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> right, compensate, redress, correct
=> democratize, democratise
=> neutralize
=> corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
=> relax, loosen
=> unite, unify
=> flocculate
=> turn
=> make possible
=> cohere
Sense 8
crush
> break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
=> burst, split, break open
=> puncture
=> burst, bust
=> smash
=> ladder, run
=> snap, crack
=> break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
=> crush
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb crush
Sense 1
oppress, suppress, crush
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Sense 2
squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
=> press
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Sense 3
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
=> get the better of, overcome, defeat
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Sense 4
crush
=> break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
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Sense 5
crush, smash, demolish
=> humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
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Sense 6
jam, crush
=> bruise, contuse
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Sense 7
break down, crush
=> change, alter, modify
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Sense 8
crush
=> break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
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Grep of verb crush
crush
crush out
Antonyms of adj crushing
1 sense of crushing
Sense 1
crushing, devastating
INDIRECT (VIA destructive) -> constructive
Similarity of adj crushing
1 sense of crushing
Sense 1
crushing, devastating
=> destructive (vs. constructive)
Pertainyms of adj crushing
Attributes of adj crushing
Domain of adj crushing
Domain Terms of adj crushing
Familiarity of adj crushing
crushing used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj crushing
crushing
Grep of adv crushing
crushingly
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