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crush
English
Etymology
From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *cruscio (“to brush”), from Frankish *krostjan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”). Akin to Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (kriustan, “to gnash”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Middle Low German krossen (“to break”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k???/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
crush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)
- A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
- Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
- A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
- a crush at a reception
- A violent crowding.
- A crowd control barrier.
- A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
- (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
- I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.
- (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- 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.
- A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
- (dated) A party or festive function.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray chapter 1
- Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray chapter 1
- (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
- (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- black crush; white crush
Hyponyms
- (infatuation): squish
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)
- To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.
- to crush grapes
- 1769, Benjamin Blayney, King James Bible : Leviticus 22:24
- Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut
- To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding
- Synonym: comminute
- to crush quartz
- 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
- With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.
- (figuratively) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
- After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
- (figuratively, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
- They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!
- To oppress or grievously burden.
- To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
- The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
- (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
- an eggshell crushes easily
- (intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
- She's crushing on him.
- (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
- 2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati (page 78)
- He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).
- 2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill, Theorising Media and Practice (page 319)
- They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.
- 2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati (page 78)
- (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
- My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.
Derived terms
Synonyms
- (trans, to squeeze into a permanent new shape) squash
- (to pound or grind into fine particles) pulverize, pulverise
- (to overwhelm) overtake
- (to impress at) ace; slay at, kill
Translations
References
- crush in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Rusch, Schur, churs
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English crush.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?k???/, /?k???/
Noun
crush m or m f (in variation) (plural crushes or crush)
- (colloquial) crush (a love interest)
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damage
English
Etymology
From Middle English damage, from Old French damage (Modern French dommage), from Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dæm?d?/
- Rhymes: -æm?d?
- Hyphenation: dam?age
Noun
damage (countable and uncountable, plural damages)
- Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Friendship
- Great errors and absurdities many {{..}}commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- (slang) Cost or expense.
- "What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.
Usage notes
Currently it is only used as an uncountable noun, except in the plural. There are few examples of countable (singular) use.
Related terms
- damn
- indemnity
Translations
Verb
damage (third-person singular simple present damages, present participle damaging, simple past and past participle damaged)
- (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.
- 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 5:
- The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Augu?t, 1712.
- (transitive, obsolete) To undergo damage.
Derived terms
- undamaged
Translations
References
Middle English
Alternative forms
- dampnage, dammage, domage, damege
Etymology
From Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnaticum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dam?a?d?(?)/, /d?m?a?d?(?)/, /?damad?(?)/
Noun
damage (plural damages)
- damage, harm, injury
- loss (of reputation, etc.)
- (rare) disability, weakness
- (law, often in the plural) damages (compensation for loss)
Related terms
- damagen
Descendants
- English: damage
- Scots: dammish
References
- “dam??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *damnaticum from Classical Latin damnum. Cognate with Old Occitan damnatge.
Noun
damage m (oblique plural damages, nominative singular damages, nominative plural damage)
- damage
- injury, hurt, insult
Related terms
- damagier
Descendants
- French: dommage
- Norman: dommage
- ? Middle English: damage, dampnage, dammage, domage, damege
- English: damage
- Scots: dammish
- ? Irish: damáiste
- ? Sicilian: damaggiu
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