Tra từ crush - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

crush [crush crushes crushed crushing] verb, noun BrE [krʌʃ] NAmE [krʌʃ]
verb

1. transitive ~ sb/sth to press or squeeze sth so hard that it is damaged or injured, or loses its shape
• The car was completely crushed under the truck.
• They crush the olives with a heavy wooden press.
•Several people were crushed to death in the accident.
2. transitive ~ sb/sth + adv./prep. to push or press sb/sth into a small space
• Over twenty prisoners were crushed into a small dark cell.
3. transitive ~ sth to break sth into small pieces or into a powder by pressing hard
• Add two cloves of crushed garlic.
4. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) to become or make sth full of folds or lines
5. transitive ~ sb to use violent methods to defeat people who are opposing you
Syn: ↑put down, Syn: ↑quash
• The army was sent in to crush the rebellion.
6. ~ sb to destroy sb's confidence or happiness
• She felt completely crushed by the teacher's criticism.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French cruissir, ‘gnash (teeth) or crack’, of unknown origin.

Example Bank:
•Crush the biscuits finely before adding them to the mixture.
•Crush the garlic finely before adding.
•He was crushed beneath a bus.
•His hand was badly crushed in the accident.
•She was crushed against the wall.
•She was crushed between two cars.
•insects that had been crushed underfoot
•Attempts to crush serious popular unrest led to civil war.
•He always has this fantastic energy. Nothing can crush him.
•Over twenty prisoners were crushed into the small dark cell.
•She felt completely crushed by the teacher's criticism.
•The government succeeded in crushing the military rising.
•Their new self-confidence could not be crushed.

noun
1. countable, usually singular a crowd of people pressed close together in a small space
•a big crush in the theatre bar
•I couldn't find a way through the crush.
2. countable ~ (on sb) a strong feeling of love, that usually does not last very long, that a young person has for sb older
•a schoolgirl crush
•I had a huge crush on her.
3. uncountable a drink made from fruit juice

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French cruissir, ‘gnash (teeth) or crack’, of unknown origin.

Example Bank:
•66 fans died in the crush on the steps of the stadium.
•I couldn't find a way through the crush.
•I had a huge crush on her when I was younger.
•It's only a schoolgirl crush, it'll pass.
•There was a big crush in the theatre bar.
•There's always a big crush in the bar during the interval.