crush

crush
1. noun /krʌʃ/

It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mothers door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

b) Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.

Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandons.

2. verb /krʌʃ/
a) To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass.

to crush grapes

b) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.

Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, crushed, broken or cut. Lev. xxii.


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