crush

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure.
• intransitive verb To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.
• intransitive verb To put down with force; subdue.
• intransitive verb To overwhelm or oppress severely.
• intransitive verb To defeat overwhelmingly.
• intransitive verb To crumple or rumple.
• intransitive verb To hug, especially with great force.
• intransitive verb To hit or propel with great force.
• intransitive verb To press upon, shove, or crowd.
• intransitive verb To extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing.
• intransitive verb To be or become crushed.
• intransitive verb To proceed or move by crowding or pressing.
• noun The act of crushing or the pressure involved in crushing.
• noun A great crowd.
• noun A substance prepared by or as if by crushing, especially a fruit drink.
• noun A usually temporary infatuation.
• noun One who is the object of such an infatuation.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A violent collision or rushing together; a sudden or violent pressure; a breaking or bruising by pressure or by violent collision or rushing together.
• noun Violent pressure caused by a crowd; a mass of objects crowded together; a compacted and obstructing crowd of persons, as at a ball or reception.
• noun In Australia, a funnel-shaped, fenced lane or passageway for cattle.
• noun In coal-mining: A general settlement of the strata above a coal-mine, due to failure of the pillars: generally accompanied by numerous local falls of roof-rocks in the workings.
• noun A species of fault in coal.
• noun The amount of cotton-seed crushed for oil during a given season: as, a large crush.
• To press and bruise between two hard bodies; squeeze out of shape or normal condition.
• To bruise and break into fragments or small particles, either by direct pressure or by grinding or pounding: as, to crush quartz.
• To force down and bruise and break, as by a superincumbent weight: as, the man was crushed by the fall of a tree.
• To put down; overpower; subdue absolutely; conquer beyond resistance: as, to crush one's enemies.
• To oppress grievously.
• To crowd or press upon.
• To rumple or put out of shape by pressure or by rough handling: as, to crush a bonnet or a dress.
• To destroy; frustrate: as, to crush out rebellion.
• Synonyms Mash, etc. See dash.
• To break, pound, pulverize, crumble, bray, disintegrate, demolish.
• To overpower, prostrate, conquer, quell.
• To be pressed out of shape, into a smaller compass, or into pieces, by external force: as, an egg-shell crushes readily in the hand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force.
• noun A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• noun Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure.
• noun a hat which collapses, and can be carried under the arm, and when expanded is held in shape by springs; hence, any hat not injured by compressing.
• noun a large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer.
• transitive verb To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass.
• transitive verb To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• transitive verb To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• transitive verb To oppress or burden grievously.
• transitive verb To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• transitive verb to subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch.