kɹʌntʃ kɹʌʃ kɹʌʃ əˈpɹɛs ʃɛl smæʃ skwiːz ˈskwɛltʃ səˈpɹɛs ˈvæŋkwɪʃ break into small pieces The car crushed the toy the act of crushing become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure The plastic bottle crushed against the wall come out better in a competition, race, or conflict Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship We beat the competition Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game make ineffective Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination crush or bruise jam a toe to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition crush an aluminum can squeeze a lemon humiliate or depress completely She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation The death of her son smashed her come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority The government oppresses political activists temporary love of an adolescent a dense crowd of people leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated