- crushing, devastating - physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"
Antonym: constructive (indirect, via destructive)
- suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling - forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
--1 is a kind of prevention, bar
--1 has particulars: crackdownDerived form: verb crush1
- oppress, suppress, crush - come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun crushing1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze - to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
--2 is one way to press
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun crush4, noun crusher1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - 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"
--3 is one way to get the better of, overcome, defeat
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to crush his opponent
- crush - break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy"
--4 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun crush4, noun crusher1
They crush the glass tubes
- crush, smash, demolish - humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
--5 is one way to humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
Sample sentence:
The bad news will crush him
- jam, crush - crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
--6 is one way to bruise, contuse
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- break down, crush - make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
--7 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- crush - become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
--8 is one way to break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
Sample sentence:
The glass tubes crush