Noun: crush
| Singular | crush |
| Plural | crushes |
Sample Sentences
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The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot [1921, Alexis Thomson, Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery:]
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a crush at a reception
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Then there was another set who called themselves the "Ragged Thirteen"; and the account says "they looked it." And, like most diggers, this "crush," to quote my authority, could handle the cards a bit. [1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 302:]
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"Look," said Crabbe, warm orange crush in his hand. [1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:]
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I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
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How did you know cause I never told / But you found out / I've got a crush on you [1985, The Jets, “Crush on You”, in The Jets, performed by Aaron Lael Zigman and Jerry Knight:]
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And I needed to get my schoolgirl crush under control. There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend. [2019, Emma Lea, A Royal Enticement:]
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He took his crush out for dinner.
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It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush. [2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:]
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Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's. [1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 1, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:]
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black crush; white crush
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Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush is a "gateway fetish"—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time. [2000, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex, page 137:]
Nouns inflected like crush
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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: Icelandic Nouns '
kreista', Faroese Nouns '
kroysta'.
Verbs referencing "crush"
Dutch Nouns
crush, French Nouns
crush, Italian Nouns
crush, Russian Nouns
краш.