crush in WordNet English dictionary

1. 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"
   beat  beat out  crush  shell  trounce  vanquish 
   
2. make ineffective
   "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
   break down  crush 
   
3. break into small pieces
   "The car crushed the toy"
   crush 
   
4. become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
   "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
   crush 
   
5. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
   "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
   squash  crush  squelch  mash  squeeze 
   
6. crush or bruise
   "jam a toe"
   jam  crush 
   
7. humiliate or depress completely
   "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
   crush  smash  demolish 
   
8. come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
   "The government oppresses political activists"
   oppress  suppress  crush 
   

1. temporary love of an adolescent
   puppy love  calf love  crush  infatuation 
   
2. the act of crushing
   crush  crunch  compaction 
   
3. a dense crowd of people
   crush  jam  press 
   
4. leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
   crushed leather  crush