crush – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of crush

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to crush
Participle: crushed
Gerund: crushing

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of crush

Indicative

Present

Icrush
youcrush
he;she;itcrushes
wecrush
youcrush
theycrush

Perfect

Ihave crushed
youhave crushed
he;she;ithas crushed
wehave crushed
youhave crushed
theyhave crushed

Past

Icrushed
youcrushed
he;she;itcrushed
wecrushed
youcrushed
theycrushed

Pluperfect

Ihad crushed
youhad crushed
he;she;ithad crushed
wehad crushed
youhad crushed
theyhad crushed

Future

Iwill crush
youwill crush
he;she;itwill crush
wewill crush
youwill crush
theywill crush

Future Perfect

Iwill have crushed
youwill have crushed
he;she;itwill have crushed
wewill have crushed
youwill have crushed
theywill have crushed

Subjunctive

Present

Icrush
youcrush
he;she;itcrush
wecrush
youcrush
theycrush

Perfect

Ihave crushed
youhave crushed
he;she;ithave crushed
wehave crushed
youhave crushed
theyhave crushed

Imperfect

Icrushed
youcrushed
he;she;itcrushed
wecrushed
youcrushed
theycrushed

Pluperfect

Ihad crushed
youhad crushed
he;she;ithad crushed
wehad crushed
youhad crushed
theyhad crushed

Conditional

Present

Iwould crush
youwould crush
he;she;itwould crush
wewould crush
youwould crush
theywould crush

Perfect

Iwould have crushed
youwould have crushed
he;she;itwould have crushed
wewould have crushed
youwould have crushed
theywould have crushed

Imperative

youcrush
weLet's crush
youcrush

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam crushing
youare crushing
he;she;itis crushing
weare crushing
youare crushing
theyare crushing

Perfect

Ihave been crushing
youhave been crushing
he;she;ithas been crushing
wehave been crushing
youhave been crushing
theyhave been crushing

Past

Iwas crushing
youwere crushing
he;she;itwas crushing
wewere crushing
youwere crushing
theywere crushing

Pluperfect

Ihad been crushing
youhad been crushing
he;she;ithad been crushing
wehad been crushing
youhad been crushing
theyhad been crushing

Future

Iwill be crushing
youwill be crushing
he;she;itwill be crushing
wewill be crushing
youwill be crushing
theywill be crushing

Future Perfect

Iwill have been crushing
youwill have been crushing
he;she;itwill have been crushing
wewill have been crushing
youwill have been crushing
theywill have been crushing

Conditional

Present

Iwould be crushing
youwould be crushing
he;she;itwould be crushing
wewould be crushing
youwould be crushing
theywould be crushing

Perfect

Iwould have been crushing
youwould have been crushing
he;she;itwould have been crushing
wewould have been crushing
youwould have been crushing
theywould have been crushing

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'crush'

abash, abolish, abroach, accomplish, accroach, address, admix, admonish, ado, adpress, affamish, affix, alloo, amass, ambush, anguish, annex, appeach, appears, approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'crush'

brush, crash, crust, frush, rush, blush, brash, bush, cash, cause,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to put to death; to extinguish life.
annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck
press
jam, beat, bruise, mash, mangle, compress, contuse, pound
pulverize
grind, crunch, break, mush, crumble, pulp, disintegrate, granulate
overcome
humble, conquer, annihilate, overthrow, oppress, extinguish, repress, quench

Antonyms

press
relax, relieve, ease, liberate

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1398, from O.Fr. croisir "to gnash (teeth), crash, break," perhaps from Frank. *krostjan "to gnash." Sense of "person one is infatuated with" is first recorded 1884; to have a crush on is from 1913.
2. From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *crusciō (“to crush”), from Frankish *krustijan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”), from Proto-Germanic *kreustaną (“to crush, grind, strike, smash”).
3. Cognate with Middle Low German tôkrosten (“to crush, shatter”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”), Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to gnash”). Akin also to Middle Dutch crosen (“to bruise, crush”), Middle Low German krossen, krö̂sen, tôkrö̂sen (“to break, shatter”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”). See: Old French 'croissir', Proto-Germanic '*kreustaną', Swedish 'krysta', Danish 'kryste', Icelandic 'kreista', Faroese 'kroysta'.

Verbs referencing "crush"

Scots grush, Dutch crushen.

Sample Sentences

  • [...] down upon a kind of horsehair slab, or perch, of which there were two within; and looked, without any expression of countenance whatever, at some friends who had come on board with us, and who were crushing their faces into all manner of shapes by endeavouring to squeeze them through the small doorway. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] it 's impossible to say how ) thirteen times without a single accident ! There is another passenger very much wrapped-up, who has been frowned down by the rest, and morally trampled upon and crushed, for presuming to inquire with a timid interest how long it is since the poor President went down. He is standing close to the lazy gentleman, and says with a faint smile that he believes She is a [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] she stops, and staggers, and shivers, as though stunned, and then, with a violent throbbing at her heart, darts onward like a monster goaded into madness, to be beaten down, and battered, and crushed, and leaped on by the angry sea—that thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, and wind, are all in fierce contention for the mastery—that every plank has its groan, every nail its shriek, and every drop [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] shore, it would have been imposing and stupendous, no doubt; but seen from the wet and rolling decks, it only impressed one giddily and painfully. In the gale of last night the life-boat had been crushed by one blow of the sea like a walnut-shell; and there it hung dangling in the air: a mere faggot of crazy boards. The planking of the paddle-boxes had been torn sheer away. The wheels were exposed [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] same body had sat calmly by, and heard a man, one of themselves, with oaths which beggars in their drink reject, threaten to cut another 's throat from ear to ear. There he sat, among them; not crushed by the general feeling of the assembly, but as good a man as any. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] to have shaken tempers that were not resolutely at Set Fair, down to some inches below Stormy. At one time we were all flung together in a heap at the bottom of the coach, and at another we were crushing our heads against the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers; and now it was rearing up in [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] of womanhood, the strong New England blood of liberty, flushed to her cheeks, and throbbed bitterly in her indignant heart; but, with habitual prudence and self-control, she mastered herself, and, crushing the paper firmly in her hand, she merely said to Rosa, (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] ? ” Ah, how is it possible for the untaught heart to keep its faith, unswerving, in the face of dire misrule, and palpable, unrebuked injustice ? In that simple heart waged a fierce conflict; the crushing sense of wrong, the foreshadowing, of a whole life of future misery, the wreck of all past hopes, mournfully tossing in the soul's sight, like dead corpses of wife, and child, and friend, rising [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • “ O God a ’ mercy ! you speak the truth ! O—O—O ! ” — and, with groans, she fell on the floor, like one crushed and writhing under the extremity of mental anguish. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] and would pray earnestly that God would send him deliverance. And then he would watch, day after day, in the vague hope of seeing somebody sent to redeem him; and, when nobody came, he would crush back to his soul bitter thoughts,—that it was vain to serve God, that God had forgotten him. He sometimes saw Cassy; and sometimes, when summoned to the house, caught a glimpse of the dejected form [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)