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    1. It begins to crush her as John watches


    2. There was really too much out at once now so they would crush a lot of the lower leaves, but it could get him out of here an hour sooner


    3. jaws closed on his windpipe to crush and splinter his neck


    4. Oh yes, he went through a phase of being interested in bell ringing when he was about fourteen, but I think that was mostly because he had a crush on his teacher and she was a ringer


    5. ‘I used to have a crush on my physics teacher, you know


    6. Here we see that it was the Lord’s will to crush Him


    7. By His resurrection from the dead, He fulfilled that age-old prophecy in Genesis 3: a son of Eve would crush the head of the serpent


    8. neither one of us means to crush


    9. Steve joined in, “Kate, nothing could crush him


    10. We spent time together during this time and I also developed a crush on her

    11. 'Ok, sort-of-friend, what do you think I should do? Crush my passion and


    12. Gently, she laid it on the earth in the hole left by the stone and looked around for smaller pebbles to surround it with so as not to crush it completely when she replaced the stone


    13. They were in their initial crush and engaging in lots of petting


    14. would fill me with false hope and crush me with it


    15. ” And he swung the staff intending to crush her side


    16. So she sat down and reclined over the picnic bench, and lay there for a while, thinking about a girl she had a crush on


    17. It was well off any trail and in such an impenetrable crush of vegetation that there was no way he could be found


    18. Demons stomped this way and that, looking for anything living to crush


    19. crush them, and reduce the hill to


    20. 10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,

    21. Dalzor, who was also stuck in the crush, got him to reminiscing about some of the times where Thollalla had counted up some of it’s gallons


    22. It was a strobing madhouse of tiny knotted khumes and vangs with the crush of the underground canal in the middle of it


    23. With a simple tap, the dwarf could crush a human's skull


    24. The branches hung in the air, menacing, as though they would crush her at any moment


    25. Unaware of its location, the creature continued to lumber forward; possibly hoping to crush Imorbis with its massive bulk


    26. The shore, crush into sand and


    27. Asmodeus had me in his grip again, but this time his arms did crush me


    28. Without any hesitation she had confronted Zarko with a proposal that he just couldn’t refuse: as they had each secretly had a crush on him since puberty, they’d also wanted their first time to be with him


    29. Poseidon’s frenzied ocean slid and heaved; black plumes of water tried to crush us with


    30. Zarko smiled – this woman had had a crush on him for years

    31. You see, he’s got these tremendous claws called talons that are so incredibly sharp and strong that many times with a swift grasping and clamping he can not only crush the skull of his victim (ouch!) but also knead its body (ouch again!), thereby giving it a first-round knockout blow (with no ten-count) and simultaneously preparing it for a soon-to-be scrumptious munching down (yum!)


    32. If he meant to crush her slowly, by piling small stones into a


    33. But here, the hermit was never cruel to her, never demanded anything, never tried to crush her with belittlement


    34. Though she’d failed to crush these wishes that her idyll with Andrastus could continue,


    35. For as much as iron is crushing and grinding everything else, so, like iron that shatters, will this kingdom crush and shatter even all these


    36. When Kelia would come home after school, she and Lunarey would talk endlessly, mostly about things from Kelia's life, like her latest crush at school, or what her friend recently gossiped to her about


    37. "Give up? Who's giving up? My father never gave up in all his years in service, why would I give up? I'm going to crush all of them


    38. Unbeknown to Zarko, she’d had a crush on him since the day she’d laid her green eyes on him, but today he didn’t notice the adoration in her expression


    39. What a cheek – bonding, my ass! She knew Rebekah had a crush on Zarko


    40. “Love? What the hell are you talking about? It’d be a crush, if anything

    41. He has always been able to crush every foe


    42. She began to lose her fear of not having a bus passing every fifteen minutes; Not having a shop within a hundred yards; The crush in the department stores; The buildings across the street


    43. SO, YOU HAVE COME TO FACE YOUR DOOM, SON OF ODIN, I LAUGH AT YOUR FEEBLE FLESH, I SNEER AT YOUR TINY BONES, I COULD CRUSH YOU LIKE A WORM UNDER A ROCK, YOU ARE WITHOUT HOPE, YOU SHALL SUFFER ETERNALLY BEFORE YOUR DEATH!


    44. Unfortunately for the mad Alit’aren, the plan was to crush them by whatever means possible


    45. Crush ingredients and mix well


    46. The Great Lord had instructed Tairark to crush them and leave none alive


    47. She was so confident and proud, never losing her passion and spirit, never allowing the demons of Salverford to crush her courage


    48. Hayley’s father had apparently heard the news as he was giving Wil a hard dark-eyed stare, as if he wanted to crush his bones with his bare hands


    49. The ceiling descended towards him, threatening to crush him, the floor pushing him upwards to aid it


    50. would crush the hull as though it were made of paper














































    1. He moped, crushed by that, for some time


    2. crushed because something bad happen to Him, but this


    3. Sasha thought her leg might have been crushed by the impact


    4. When the giants had crushed the outer walls of Svellgard, the war was over


    5. Johnny imagined that his dad would be crushed, and it was a moment that Johnny wanted to do his best to spare him from ever having to go through


    6. He wanted to be a great explorer or a monster with seven heads that breathed fire and crushed cities


    7. In his surprise and disgust Dan nearly crushed the empty brandy balloon that


    8. the constriction, the weight of fear that otherwise would have crushed him


    9. We see that Paul immediately relates that the power of the enemy to taunt and to force others into disobedience has been crushed by the power of the resurrection


    10. bones had been crushed

    11. crushed in the coils of a great serpent


    12. By repeating his name, by bouncing the echo of his voice off the cold stone walls that surrounded him, he somehow found the strength to hold at bay the constriction, the weight of fear that otherwise would have crushed him


    13. His crushed foot had been killing him so much that he wasn't paying attention to much else at the time


    14. "That's about the only thing I can think of that's good about me getting my foot crushed, you now have a stationary backrest


    15. to feel the cool juice of crushed blades


    16. Within minutes her eyelids fluttered, her head lolled forward and, perhaps as a final gesture to who knew what, with one hand she crushed her empty cola can and melted into a deep sleep


    17. Boras looked crushed and hung his head (in shame)


    18. mantra in a country where desires are routinely crushed


    19. Omi had crushed the toes of the fourth man with the bat


    20. He crushed the paper and shoved it into his pocket as he ran down the hall

    21. “I’d need to be out on an irrigation pond in the country to start,” she went on with her act, “not where I could be crushed between barges in city traffic


    22. Carl gulped down the last fourth of the can, crushed it in his hand, shot it


    23. He reared and kicked at the barriers of his prison, and in the process crushed in the chest and skull of the faithful liveryman pinned to the railing by the mare


    24. He just crushed the plant to pulp, ytith and all, getting them stuck in the sap and snapping them at leisure


    25. They said he was very disappointed in her and it crushed his spirit when he had to do it


    26. And with that, Justice picked up the Delacroix Church with one hand, without breaking a sweat, and tossed the building at one imp; it was hit with full force, and he was crushed into the ground, as the Delacroix Church itself fell into pieces and became rubble


    27. crushed In the gate and there is none


    28. The man’s fingers were crushed with two quick stomps


    29. “And this is the one Desa worked on isn’t it?” She had crushed and stirred the pods and re-topped it after Alan’s first lesson


    30. His grip was childlike, and had he wanted to, Alec could have crushed it, forever ruined his perfect, manicured hand

    31. Drau'd's blood boiled as it had only once before, and at that time many fell before him, crushed by his ancient war hammer -- the unbreakable Hell's Bane


    32. Still, with over a thousand hardened laborers screaming at his back, Drau'd knew he was in for a grizzly fight the instant he lifted Hell's Bane off of a crushed, wolf helm and saw the creature's flesh regenerate almost instantaneously


    33. Anymore and he will be crushed


    34. After initiating the steady death march of warrior prisoners into the Rift, her husband had suddenly vanished, leaving a fearful and crushed Council of Races to ponder his latest evil machination


    35. For a short while she flew before her life was crushed from her as she struck the ground


    36. Followed by a gush of wind that lifted her ponytail -- and nearly her whole body -- into the air, one of the demons in front of her was crushed, compacted flatter than the breadth of her blades by a monstrous war pick


    37. Sam could hardly refuse and drank the odious combination of carrot, cauliflower and spring onion with crushed cloves and garlic


    38. Had he wanted, he could have easily picked up his enemies and simply crushed them in his fists


    39. Orb and Golf together healed Danny’s crushed vertebrae and Ben’s broken ribs whilst they were in this intense state of energy-fire


    40. The heavy vehicle crushed its way through the thin aluminium walls of the lorry

    41. In the case of high-quality aggregates (crushed granite and quartz sand) using, as it is shown by E


    42. It is necessary to take into account that at production conditions, sand and crushed stone (gravel) have some humidity unlike laboratory (nominal) compositions of concrete, which define for dry initial materials


    43. – quantities of dry sand and crushed stone (gravel) in


    44. and crushed stone (gravel), parts of unit


    45. As he got closer, the path opened up and he walked onto a large landing of crushed limestone


    46. As continued along the trail it narrowed but was still solid even though the tiny crushed stone was moist and gave with his footsteps


    47. In the shadow of the ship there was only really heavy gravel as anything larger had been either mercilessly crushed or shoved out of the way as the Elysian came down


    48. Her left foot had been crushed almost beyond recognition and her leg was broken below the knee, in at least two places suspected James


    49. “Won’t whatever’s in there have been crushed?” asked James


    50. The drive section had crushed its mountings and pushed itself right up against the mid-section before swinging slightly to one side, completely wrecking the support structure between the two sections in the process














































    1. The unjust oppression of the industry of other countries falls back, if I may say so, upon the heads of the oppressors, and crushes their industry more than it does that of those other countries


    2. The highest grade of pillaging is to take the bones of the deceased and throw it into a monster industrial blender with hardened steel balls which crushes and grinds it to a powder! This my friend is pillaging of the highest degree of a body that does not even belong to you


    3. girlish crushes on other aspects of life were well out of the way she


    4. at the second advent and crushes Satan


    5. Do you not perceive that grief is more wicked than all the spirits and most terrible to the servants of God and more than all other spirits destroys man and crushes out the Holy Spirit and yet on the other hand she saves him?"


    6. "Hear then" says he "foolish man how grief crushes out the Holy Spirit and on the other hand saves


    7. When the doubting man attempts any deed and fails in it on account of his doubt this grief enters into the man and grieves the Holy Spirit and crushes him out


    8. She crushes a brick mailbox whipping over a lawn, you knock ornamental statue through a breakfast nook keeping up


    9. “Mmph!” you gasp startled by her sudden aggressiveness as she crushes herself into your chest


    10. In the short term, Maya almost always crushes the rebellion

    11. HATAMAH: It breaks and crushes everything that is thrown into


    12. the ecstatic face, and then also the body, of Fernando Torres, one of her hottest crushes


    13. It crushes the arm and parts of the hippo’s


    14. This elephant of Zulimistan crushes small ants celebrate its victory and triumph


    15. secrets about their crushes, love life and wildest


    16. Think deeply and seriously on the scripture; walk the love walk, patience slows you down, make you focus and crushes hurry


    17. I’ve had teenager’s crushes before


    18. Cass quickly crushes it in his embrace


    19. Daphne also spotted Cam, Emma, Gregory, Pete, and Stan sitting with Hortense, fawning over the doctor like they all had school-girl crushes


    20. (That was my crushes name)

    21. In a way it was funny, because a lot of girls back in high school had had their crushes on Adam, and yet all he cared about was pursuing me, even though it was hopeless


    22. He still feels a pang of guilt whenever she reaches for hair that isn't there, but the overwhelming attractiveness of the new look generally crushes those thoughts


    23. When nothing else matters except that single part of a disconnected linear chain of a linear, causal process that rips ore out of the earth, filters it, crushes it, washes it, chemicalizes it, melts it, refines it, turns it into an alloy, ships it around the world to other factories that refine it further, shape it, re-melt it, pound it, twist it, flatten it, and then sell it to another set of disconnected linear processes that makes that metal ends up in half the houses of the world as a screw, as a pipe, as a nail…


    24. Western civilization is still seeking to crush the entire Earth and harm it, still seeking oil, and still throwing away everything it crushes as being useless and still worshipping toil and throwing away as useless


    25. The top scum of each human culture decapitates the heads of grain, and crushes them between stone wheels, separating the nutritious chaff from the gluten, separating the starving poor from the gluttons and make white bread out of it


    26. I have no idea how the cheer team can throw Dylan Marvil's fat ass up in the air! She practically crushes the girls who catch her when she comes back down!


    27. You cannot humanize or make more humane, a malevolent system that allows the worst, most foul evil to dominate the highest places of power and systematically crushes and destroys the best of the human species


    28. First crushes, first dates, first kisses, first break-ups, first exes


    29. Civilization crushes, kills, and buries all new ideas


    30. The Principle of increasing mediocrity is only one symptom of the many ills and fallacies of the hierarchical pyramidalization of human society which allows only the worst to seep to the top and crushes the best, instead of the other way around

    31. In the short term, Maya almost always crushes the


    32. As a huge heavy box of hidden layers that crushes him flat


    33. In all such relationships there is on one side the extreme which shows itself when one member of the intimacy crushes and destroys the personality of the other


    34. That this poor aching bosom crushes?


    35. Thomas was left with crushes on girls he wanted to ask to prom, but he did not


    36. Oddly clean-cut despite his tattoos and powerful build, he had a quick, almost wry grin, and as far as she could tell, all three of the waitresses had crushes on him


    37. Then he rises from his cot and takes the little shortwave radio out of the first-aid box—six years old and bristling with his modifications, replacement wires, a new solenoid, Jutta’s notations orbiting the tuning coil—and carries it into the alley behind the house and crushes it with a brick


    38. Von Rumpel sets the little house on the floor, raises his foot, and crushes it


    39. His chest crushes mine, and I itch to touch, but I can’t, my hands, useless above me


    40. Another juicer crushes what you would like to juice and presses that crush against a fine net

    41. The third juicer is also grinding, but instead of a twister that crushes the fibers, it has two rust-free screws that face each other


    42. A steel beam slams into one of them, and a slab of concrete crushes the other


    43. The T-90 crushes the fuselage of DeShawn’s Raven


    44. It weighs down, it crushes


    45. "Three Orange Crushes, make it four," he told the old man


    46. I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is necessary that I should be despised


    47. The Fed Crushes the 1981 Economy


    48. Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling with light, so soft and green and shady that the Druids would have forsaken their oaks to worship in them; or to the cedar wood beyond Flint's Pond, where the trees, covered with hoary blue berries, spiring higher and higher, are fit to stand before Valhalla, and the creeping juniper covers the ground with wreaths full of fruit; or to swamps where the usnea lichen hangs in festoons from the white spruce trees, and toadstools, round tables of the swamp gods, cover the ground, and more beautiful fungi adorn the stumps, like butterflies or shells, vegetable winkles; where the swamp-pink and dogwood grow, the red alderberry glows like eyes of imps, the waxwork grooves and crushes the hardest woods in its folds, and the wild holly berries make the beholder forget his home with their beauty, and he is dazzled and tempted by nameless other wild forbidden fruits, too fair for mortal taste


    49. Katya never had made such confessions to Alyosha before, and he felt that she was now at that stage of unbearable suffering when even the proudest heart painfully crushes its pride and falls vanquished by grief


    50. That's what crushes me now



    1. His grip was crushing Brandon's shoulders and the others closed in on him


    2. Panic seized his chest, crushing his heart


    3. In an instant, the tentacles of a huge sea monster, slam over the side of the balustrade, crushing it and


    4. The SNACK BAR ATTENDANT -- a middle-aged man from the Subcontinent in a stained white uniform -- languidly shoves a plate toward one customer, takes a drag off his cigarette, points slowly to another student in the gaggle of customers crushing around the counter waiting to be served


    5. The sense of disappointment, of failure, was crushing in the darkness


    6. The jaw descended til it rested on the fore deck, crushing the rail to splinters, and there it paused before beginning the mayhem of their destruction


    7. I kept drinking little Dixie cups of water then crushing them in my hand and kung-fu kicking them across the room


    8. These ordinary people cringed and winced as the experts subjected them to crushing and horribly patronising witticisms, The ultimate aim of this personal degradation was focussed on one thing; to single out only the most exceptional talents, while ensuring that the audience at home was vicariously thrilled and titillated by the humiliation of those who failed


    9. cringed and winced as the experts subjected them to crushing and


    10. The want of money and the crushing boredom of provincial life make for a poor bedside manner, but there is something else about Jasari, something brutal

    11. head down, crushing Hadley's head, spurting blood over the Piano


    12. pulling it over the man’s eyes and bringing his head down, then crushing a knee


    13. Jim jumped to his feet and clutched her tightly, crushing her face to his chest


    14. I’ve got the sad job of crushing the dreams of young


    15. I can still remember as a fourth grader I realized that what she did to me was mean, spirit crushing and evil


    16. Why the hell couldn't she just tell me Jeff, you did a great job you worked very hard, I'm proud of you for doing as well as you did in the fourth grade, rather than crushing me like a little grape under her foot in front of the whole school


    17. Emily ducked, pulling Whimly down with her as the deer charged toward them, then, an instant before crushing them, the creature leapt, its hooves clipping several curls from Emily's head


    18. Others were larger still, fanged demons capable of crushing stones within their very maws


    19. On it raced, growing higher with each turn, enormous even from their distant view, racing backward to Mesapit wrenching and crushing posts and barriers


    20. Her gray eyes darted to the left where a large chunk of wood levitated above the heads of the other demons, then, before they could reach her -- with an ear popping THUD!, the shard of doorway slammed to the earth, crushing them

    21. Crushing metal, bones, and even the stones beneath its feet, the Boulder Dwarf repeatedly heaved his war pick into the air and hammered away at the being's body, only satisfied with his work once he was looking down at a crumpled pile of steel and pulp


    22. Ostedes planted a foot on his chest, crushing him, his toes digging into his skin


    23. The giants fought in a berserk rage, crushing and hacking anything with dead flesh


    24. Change it and keep all former versions available for recall, or I can delete, replace, and save the corrections, crushing the former text and replacing it with the newly created one


    25. anything to alleviate the tension that was crushing me


    26. the tension that was crushing me


    27. A stomping and crushing of leaves and twigs was


    28. For as much as iron is crushing and grinding everything else, so, like iron that shatters, will this kingdom crush and shatter even all these


    29. Except, of course, how to survive this crushing jealousy now that Chloe had returned


    30. The next few seconds felt eternal to Edrimer, and during them he felt a crushing wave of sadness and grief which, by the time those seconds passed, turned into an erupting blaze of rage and fury

    31. But the crushing news of her father’s death was still exceedingly raw for him


    32. As the wall came crushing down, Uar gave


    33. The sun was high in the sky now even though it was only just after mid-day it beat down on the trench and us like a hammer on an anvil and crushing people with its force


    34. was safer than being in a standard pressure suit, which would never have held against the immense – bone crushing – pressure from the field device, Yet he still felt a sense of being more vulnerable than a human


    35. But here now led in this bed with clean sheets in relative comfort hearing the news about Elijah the one person I thought would surely survive this war unscathed brought everything crushing down on top of me


    36. “Can you let me go love as I can’t breathe and you are crushing my ribs?” I stood back and held her at arms length and saw that her cheeks were stained with tears also I invited her in and we sat side by side on the bed both a bit self conscious at first


    37. Then Ivy and Nobby came over to join us and Ivy sat down right on my knee crushing my wedding tackle as she did causing a whoosh of breath to escape my lips


    38. Druantia still hovered high in the sky, her Green Men still ploughed through the dark masses, crushing demon bodies with their feet and fists


    39. “They wanted me to die?” Raven asked, feeling a crushing wave of fear flood over him


    40. But he also felt a crushing sense of futility

    41. The stone room felt like it was crushing him, and claustrophobia shook his senses


    42. Raven’s support had given her some courage, but she was still struggling with the crushing certainty that she would be dead within minutes


    43. The force of acceleration was crushing, but not sufficient to render him unconscious


    44. The room began to close in on him, crushing him ever smaller, compressing his lungs, his bones, his muscles


    45. He curled himself into a ball and forced his eyelids closed as he awaited the final crushing movement of the room


    46. No longer confined to her chair by the crushing forces that had acted upon them all when


    47. The pressure in his head increased to something which made him feel as if he was diving at crushing depths


    48. The ship moved, accelerating at an incredible rate, so that a crushing force came smashing


    49. And, again, if I remember correctly, Jeremy would use all 8’9” 250lbs of his 12 year old body (yeah, he was a little big for his age) to scare the hell out of those tiny chickens so that he could easily grab the eggs (without crushing them)


    50. There was a dull roar; a complete section about a foot wide was blown away as cleanly as if cut, and the mighty trunk rearing its lofty branches over 150 feet in the air, poised itself for a second, and fell to the earth with a thunder and force that shook the ground, crushing down large trees and part of the sacred grove in its fall, and badly injuring some natives who had gone too close after they had been warned













































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    Synonyms for "crush"

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    "crush" definitions

    leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated


    a dense crowd of people


    temporary love of an adolescent


    the act of crushing


    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