crushing
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crushing
- /ˈkɹʌ.ʃɪŋ/
Rhymes with -ʌʃɪŋ
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, crush + -ing.
verb
- present participle and gerund of crush
adjective more crushing · most crushing
- That crushes; overwhelming. a crushing defeat
- Devastatingly disheartening. crushing blow
Similar: gutting
noun crushings
- The action of the verb to crush.
- A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim.
- Crushed material. oilseed crushings
- The act of subjecting sugarcane to crushing. Mr. Holtze speaks with feeling upon this subject. His own experience had shown him the folly of planting sugar in dry soil, at a distance from water; the natural consequence was that, though the cane grew on the ironstone ridges of Palmerston, it would not throw up sufficient juice to make a good cr
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: quelling, stifling, destructive, suppression, devastating, overpowering, overwhelming, pressing, smashing, breaking, breakage, crash, suppressing, shredding, mashing, choking
adjective
Similar: gutting
Translations
Every language
adj that crushes
| Español | arrollador, aplastante |
|---|---|
| Português | arrasador |
| Français | écrasant |
| Deutsch | niederschmetternd |
| Ελληνικά | συντριπτικός syntriptikós |
| Română | copleșitor |
| Русский | сокруши́тельный sokrušítelʹnyj |
noun action of the verb
| Română | strivire, turtire, zdrobire |
|---|---|
| Русский | дробле́ние droblénije, разда́вливание razdávlivanije, размельче́ние razmelʹčénije |
noun method of execution
| Français | broyage |
|---|---|
| Русский | уничтоже́ние uničtožénije, разруше́ние razrušénije |
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title = {crushing},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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