crushing
adjective /ˈkrʌʃɪŋ/
/ˈkrʌʃɪŋ/
[usually before noun]- used to emphasize how bad or severe something is
- a crushing defeat in the election
- The shipyard has been dealt another crushing blow with the failure to win this contract.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCrushing is used with these nouns:- blow
- burden
- defeat
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