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tocrush

tocrush

English

Verb

tocrush ‎(third-person singular simple present tocrushs, present participle tocrushing, simple past and past participle tocrushed)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To crush to pieces.
    • Nicholas Udall (1542)
      I will at one stroke all tocrush thy bed to powder.
    His head was all tocrushed from the fall.‎
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Etymology

From Middle English cruschen ‎(“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir ‎(“to crush”), from Late Latin *cruscio ‎(“to brush”), from Frankish *krostjan ‎(“to crush, squeeze, squash”), equivalent to to- +‎ crush.

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