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    crushing


    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 "crushing"

    crushing quelling stifling suppression devastating striking breaking dashing shattering

    "crushing" definitions

    forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority


    physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination