Crushing

Crush′ing

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Adj.

That crushes; overwhelming.

“The blow must be quick and crushing.”

Macualay.

Crushing

CRUSHING

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ppr.

Pressing or squeezing into a mass, or until broken or bruised; overwhelming; subduing by force; oppressing; comminuting.

crushing

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Verb

crushing

present participle of crush

Adjective

crushing ‎(comparative more crushing, superlative most crushing)

That crushes; overwhelming.
a crushing defeat
Devastatingly disheartening.

crushing guilt

Oh, your dog has leukemia? That’s crushing.

Synonyms

(disheartening):

gutting (British)
See also Wikisaurus:disheartening

Translations

that crushes

Arabic:
Bulgarian: съкрушителен (bg) ‎(sǎkrušítelen)
Danish: knusende
Dutch: verpletterend (nl)
Faroese: knúsandi
Finnish: murskaava (fi)
French: écrasant (fr)
German: niederschmetternd
Greek: συντριπτικός (el) ‎(syntriptikós)

Khmer: ដ៏ខ្លាំង ‎(dɑɑ klaŋ), ដ៏ធំធេង ‎(dɑɑ tʰom tʰeeŋ)
Norwegian: knusende
Polish:
Portuguese: arrasador
Romanian: copleșitor (ro)
Russian: сокруши́тельный (ru) ‎(sokrušítelʹnyj)
Slovak:
Spanish: arrollador m

Noun

crushing ‎(countable and uncountable, plural crushings)

The action of the verb to crush.
oilseed crushings
A former method of execution.
(in plural) crushed material

Translations

action of the verb

Romanian: strivire (ro) f, turtire (ro) f, zdrobire (ro) f
Russian: дробле́ние (ru) n ‎(droblénije) (breaking up), разда́вливание (ru) n ‎(razdávlivanije), размельче́ние (ru) n ‎(razmelʹčénije)

method of execution

Russian: уничтоже́ние (ru) n ‎(uničtožénije), разруше́ние (ru) n ‎(razrušénije)

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CRUSHING

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