crushing

Meanings

Plural: crushings

Noun

• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
• The action of the verb to crush.
• A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim.
• Crushed material.
• The act of subjecting sugarcane to crushing.

Verb

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
• break into small pieces
• humiliate or depress completely
• crush or bruise
• make ineffective
• become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
• present participle and gerund of crush

Adjective Satellite

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
  • "a crushing blow"
  • "a crushing rejection"
  • "bone-crushing"

Adj

• That crushes; overwhelming.
• Devastatingly disheartening.

Synonyms

beat, beat out, break down, crush, demolish, devastating, gutting, jam, mash, oppress, quelling, shell, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, stifling, suppress, suppression, trounce, vanquish

Anagrams of crushing