crush

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> "Wanna bro down and crush some code?"What?

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leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

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The clearest senses and uses of crush gathered in one view.

noun

leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

noun

a dense crowd of people

noun

temporary love of an adolescent

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crush.

noun

leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

noun

a dense crowd of people

noun

temporary love of an adolescent

noun

the act of crushing

verb

come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"

verb

to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"

See also: squash, squelch, mash, squeeze

verb

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"

See also: beat, shell, trounce, vanquish

verb

break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy"

verb

humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"

verb

crush or bruise; "jam a toe"

verb

make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"

verb

become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"

Example sentences

> "Wanna bro down and crush some code?"What?

"You said you were going to build a game that could crush Farmville, you failed.

For the longest time I harbored the biggest crush on a girl from my high school.

You give a good engineer a small project to work on, an he should crush it.

I'm not trying to crush raganwald's constructive and collect many finger snaps from the judges.

Kind of heartless, gruff, and willing to crush anyone in his way, but a guy with a vision so strong he will do anything.

" Not "Bethesda are an Orwellian corporate giant trying to crush the little guy, bwa ha ha!

Then after WW2, the Soviets again, keen to punish the Latvians for daring to "let" the Nazi war machine crush them beneath its jackboots.

For example, if we couldn't pool enough money to buy a rubber soccer ball, we would find a soda can, crush it on the ground and use it as the ball.

I think these were the same crowd drawing up plans to sell the government on how to crush wikileaks amid other miscellaneous dirty tricks.

It's an amazing place that can make and crush people in the blink of an eye, so in the end, it's really up to what kind of person you are and what kind of lifestyle you want to pursue.

It may just take a little longer, but we'll avoid the possibility of letting the government crush Internet innovation forever.

Imagining events as fragments of gigantic intractable problems that may soon crush us all infuses our opposition to them with a sense of heroism so American that we feel naked without it.

I think that particularly in the Valley it often ends up essentially exploiting the crush-code-with-your-forehead-after-70-hour-weeks culture and young employees who have not yet learned appropriate boundary setting.

If the air seems to be more humid today, that's because PR guys everywhere are salivating for how much play they could get with "We investigated the BBB, found shenanigans, and got it explicitly committed to paper that they wanted to crush us for having found shenanigans and talked publicly about them.