| 单词 | crush |
| 释义 | crush I. transitive verb 1. < crush grapes > : squeeze or force by pressure so as to damage or destroy the structure of : force together into a mass < crush clothes into a box > < crush out a cigarette > < crushed under the wheels of a truck > 2. < crushed her child to her breast > 3. < crush rock > 4. a. < truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again — W.C.Bryant > b. < a crushing burden of debt > c. < the rebellion was crushed > < poverty crushed his spirit > < a crushing retort > 5. < crushed into the elevator > 6. archaic < come and crush a cup of wine — Shakespeare > 7. a. < the mottled appearance of a crushed finish > b. 8. also crushdress intransitive verb 1. obsolete 2. < an eggshell crushes easily > 3. < several men crushed ruthlessly toward the door > Synonyms: < the sternest of those iron proconsuls who were employed by the House of Austria to crush the lingering public spirit of Austria — T.B.Macaulay > < to crush the individual by its demand for unwavering obedience, total loyalty, and absolute uniformity — Oscar Handlin > quell now indicates overwhelming completely and reducing to inactivity or passivity < the nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority — T.B.Macaulay > < police quelling the disturbance > < peace depends on the existence of organized power to quell transgressors of the peace — Bruce Bliven b.1889 > extinguish suggests a total ending as sudden, thorough, and decisive as putting out a fire with water < lives that were to be extinguished in Hitler's gas chambers — Isaac Deutscher > < the Black Death itself had extinguished many painfully acquired patrimonies — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < we must not let such embers of freedom as existed in Eastern Europe and the Balkans be extinguished in the hour of liberation — Vera M. Dean > suppress may suggest rendering ineffective or nonexistent by the power of governmental, legal or legalistic, or social pressure < to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions — U.S. Constitution > < President Lincoln authorized searches and arrests without warrants, caused newspapers to be suppressed, declared martial law even in regions where the regular courts were open — F.A.Ogg & P.O.Ray > < suppressing gambling and prostitution > quench suggests a checking of force, impetus, effectiveness, or ardor by or as if by drenching, dampening, cooling, or slaking < his misfortunes never quenched his sprightly spirit — R.M.Lovett > < the rising of the Speaker of the House quenches all voices and decides all quarrels — J.P.Martin > < nothing could be farther from me than a desire to quench the imagination, on the contrary I would preserve it — George Santayana > quash indicates summary and decisive extinction or subduing < the poverty-stricken Hitler, whom the death of his mother deprived of a home and whose hope to study architecture had been quashed — G.N.Shuster > < he foresaw that the dreadful woman … would quash his last chance of life — Charles Dickens > II. 1. obsolete 2. < the crush of worlds — Joseph Addison > 3. 4. obsolete 5. a. < a crush in the subway > b. 6. < have a crush on someone > < her schoolgirl crushes > also 7. Synonyms: see crowd |
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