I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cruel/devastating/crushing blow (= extremely hard to bear )
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Her loss came as a devastating blow to her father.
a crushing victory (= a win by a very large amount )
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Australia won a crushing 139-run victory over the West Indies.
a crushing/resounding defeat (= a complete defeat, by a very large amount )
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He quit as Prime Minister following a crushing defeat in regional elections.
crush resistance (= end it by force )
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He added that any resistance would be crushed.
crushed ice (= broken into small pieces, for example to add to a drink )
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Serve the cocktail with crushed ice.
foil/crush a coup (= stop it from being successful )
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The government foiled an armed coup by rebel soldiers.
suppress/crush/put down a rebellion (= end it by force )
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Troops moved in to suppress the rebellion.
suppress/crush/put down a revolt (= end it by force )
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The Russians speedily crushed the revolt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
body
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Undaunted, we crushed our bodies against the stone and eased ourselves up and over.
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Over the debris of the tower and the crushed bodies they battered the doors with it.
car
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Read in studio A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall.
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A kid starts a bulldozer from a site next door, crushes seven police cars .
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It would crush his car like an eggshell with its size and the combined speeds.
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He was crushed as the stolen car tried to make its escape.
death
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The period of consciousness, while the victims were being crushed prior to their death , lasted some 30 minutes at most.
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Margaret suffered a slow death by having weights stacked on her back, eventually crushing her to death.
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Many of them were crushed to death .
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Read in studio A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event.
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The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards.
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There are instances of people being crushed to death or pushed under trains by the crush of excursionists on station platforms.
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Read in studio A labourer has been crushed to death by a cement lorry.
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In a crash your baby could be crushed to death .
hand
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It seemed to her that her heart had been crushed in metal hands , icy cold and shining.
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Paul crushes John's hand in his.
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Jeane Russell smiled, and crushed the man's hand as if it were an eggshell.
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This he eventually does, crushing Curley's hand .
hope
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Her lower legs were so badly crushed there was no hope of saving them.
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This assertion was a crushing blow to the hopes of the Seminoles and the blacks.
ice
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You will need two identical drinking glasses ice cubes salt First you need to crush the ice cubes.
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When they slid him out he moved like a bag of crushed ice .
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But all at once her heart felt as if it was crushed in ice .
pepper
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I crush the pepper between my fingers until the juice comes, and then rinse my fingers in the bowl of water.
rebellion
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The last important resistance to modernization was crushed in the Satsuma rebellion of 1877.
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In the summer he crushed Geoffrey's rebellion and compelled him to renounce his claim.
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But instead helping to crush the rebellion , the teachers grinned, shrugged and told the stewards to relax.
skull
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Mowbray's body crashed against the earth, his brains spattering as the sharp, icy cobbles crushed his skull .
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He not only kills her, he crushes her skull and splits her body like a shellfish.
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It's so tight it would crush his skull .
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The superman testing himself with an ax, crushing the skulls of old women.
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He had to summon all his willpower to pass under a bridge because he would experience a crushing pressure on the skull .
uprising
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Troops were sent in to crush the uprising at Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo.
weight
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As the road slithers around Milkovici and into the regional capital of Mostar the illusion is crushed under the weight of ruins.
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What her daddy may have felt was the crushing weight of building a perfect world for his baby.
■ VERB
break
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The inexperienced often crash into the coral, breaking and crushing it.
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Becky put her heel on the nearest piece of broken glass, and crushed it.
try
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Philip stood on the vase, trying not to crush the flowers that were in it.
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Locked side by side we squeezed fiercely, our sweaty temples jammed together, each trying to crush the other into submission.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Add a handful of crushed dill to a bottle of white wine vinegar.
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Coconuts have to be crushed in order to extract their oil.
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He closed his fist over the flower, crushing it into a pulp.
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Joe crushed his cigarette into an ashtray.
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Pete was crushed by his wife's sudden death.
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Seles crushed Sabatini in last night's match.
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The army is stationed near the capital, ready to crush any signs of a revolt.
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The rebellion was quickly crushed by forces loyal to the President.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And it is like a butterfly wing, fragile and quickly crushed between finger and thumb even as we grasp it.
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Efforts to crush the trade have been stepped up recently.
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He had shouldered the troubles of the world and been crushed.
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His laughter stopped in the middle; he scowled as if four very bad eggs had been crushed on his head.
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Out he went, his blue and ivory feet crushing the wet salad of the lawn.
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The whalers spring into the sea and the boat is crushed beneath the hull.
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Was Armand crushed in the process?
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
schoolgirl
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What had begun as a schoolgirl crush had grown into a profound and romantic desire to be Charles's bride.
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For Mr Robins, Inge felt the beginnings of a schoolgirl crush and hated him when he did not take her side.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Airports are expecting a record crush of passengers this holiday season.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dangerous crush followed a surge at the front of the stage and the security subsequently panicked.
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Dear Kidsday: I have a crush on a boy.
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Grandson Richard, 39, was in a crush of people all heading the same way.
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Jess wormed through the crush , at last emerging into daylight.
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Now he has moved back, but my good friend has a crush on him, too.
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They are there to protect him from the crush of popularity.
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When I realized that Hilda's was more than a normal crush , I should have stopped it I suppose.