Crush

(noun.) the act of crushing.

(noun.) a dense crowd of people.

(verb.) break into small pieces; 'The car crushed the toy'.

(verb.) become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; 'The plastic bottle crushed against the wall'.

(verb.) humiliate or depress completely; 'She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation'; 'The death of her son smashed her'.

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• Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• If the same scholastic method is in force there, all that would be needed to crush socialism is to show its dogmatic inconsistencies. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It directed the latter to be ready to move and to crush Sheridan as soon as he, Longstreet, arrived. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Was he really so superior, and would he crush the poor worms which dared not aspire to his perfections? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• In the passion of their good intentions they have not hesitated to conceal facts, suppress thought, crush disturbing initiatives and apparently detrimental desires. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Instead of trying to crush badness we must turn the power behind it to good account. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They wouldn't crush and wither, if you please, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Think twice, you, Micawber, if you don't want to be crushed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And without doubt the lady so crushed with gifts would find them irresistible. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He wondered if she did not begin to see what a powerful engine it was, and how nearly it had crushed her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Long since you ought to have crushed it: now you should blush to allude to it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Grapes, split and crushed under foot, lay about everywhere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• One of these consists of the crushing and grinding machinery, and the other of the long kilns. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• As he saw his mate go down he crouched, and, with a low snarl, sprang upon the captain crushing him to his knees with a single mighty blow. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He had investigated all the crushing-machines on the market, and tried all he could get. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• And arterwards, crushing a flowing wine-cup--which I allude to brewing rum and water--we'll pledge one another. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I am also for the bridge, the man with the flat face and the broken nose said, crushing the end of the cigarette on the table. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The operation of lithotrity, for removing stone from the bladder by crushing the stone, was introduced by Civiale, 1817-1824, who devised successful instruments and modes of using them. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Then she raised it to her lips, and crushing it there buried her face in the soft ferns, sobbing. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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