Crushing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRUSHING in dictionary:

VERB:
• CRUSH, to press out of shape
• deform, pulverize, or force inwards by compressing forcefully
• crease or crumple (cloth or paper).
• violently subdue (opposition or a rebellion)
• make (someone) feel overwhelmingly disappointed or embarrassed
NOUN:
• a crowd of people pressed closely together
• a brief but intense infatuation for someone, especially someone unattainable
• a person with whom someone is infatuated
• a drink made from the juice of pressed fruit
• a fenced passage with one narrow end, used for handling cattle or sheep.
• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
• act or instance of compressing so as to injure or break
ADJECTIVE:
• That crushes; overwhelming.
• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to press or squeeze out of shape

Words related to CRUSHING

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Words that contain CRUSHING

crushings15 crushingly19

How to use CRUSHING in a sentence

• Out of the crushing of her hopes, the falling of her house of dreams, had come this inexplicable intoxication, which swept her heart with its baptism of joy.
• Beneath her crushing contempt he had grown calm again.
• It is a crushing in of a flue by external pressure.
• There is nothing more crushing for the man who loves truly than the consciousness that he is bringing unhappiness on her he loves.
• Vested interests at Constantinople had freed the helpless peasant from the most crushing burden of all.
• Now he removed it from between his lips with that hand that always shook a little, and dropped it to the floor, crushing it lightly with the toe of his boot.
• And so the tale continues, until, as a final picture, we see Ibrahim Pasha leading the Egyptians into Asia and crushing the Turks at Iconium.
• The greatest anguish I have any conception of, consists in that crushing of a new-born hope which I had already two or three times experienced.
• The result, however, was a crushing defeat for him and a national repudiation of his plan of reconstruction.
• Her fingers closed automatically over the paper, crushing it into her palm.
• The curse is come on me, which makes no haste And doth not tarry, crushing both the proud Hard man and him the sinner double-faced.
• Experience had taught him that this attitude was better adapted than any other to sustain the crushing weight of Mr.
• WINSTON CHURCHILL informed the House of Commons, weighs thirty tons and can pass over a brick without crushing it.
• The ore crushed easily, and the mill reduced two tons and a half per stamp readily in every twenty-four hours, in thirty days crushing 3,000 tons.
• If he could have accomplished his purpose without crushing Sleeny he would have preferred it.
• Several days were necessary to la Peyrade before he could even begin to recover from the crushing blow which had struck him down.
• He would have been afraid of crushing her could he have been induced to accept her advice.
• This would release a lever, and the heavy logs above would fall, crushing to death anything beneath it.
• For the first time in her life Felicita found herself in an omnibus, with her feet buried in damp straw, and strange fellow-passengers crushing against her.
• He said that now was the time to strike a crushing blow at the Indian power, and he thought all brave men would take advantage of it.
• A little farther on Wetzel came to a slight crushing of the moss, where he concluded some heavy body had fallen.
• The contemporary verdict was harsh, crushing, and unjust in many respects to Randolph.
• If the ends are more moist than the middle a crushing may occur on the extreme ends in a horizontal plane.
• There was much to be said in favour of crushing Sedgwick.
• They had not met for ten months, but twice as many years seemed to have passed over Daisy, crushing her beneath their weight.
• Men were pushing and crushing backwards and forwards.
• Crushing the letter which had excited him so much between his fingers, and casting it furiously from him, he gave vent to an incoherent expression of rage.
• An aching in the muscles of her right hand now showed her that she was crushing her gloves and the map of Norfolk in a grip sufficient to crack a more solid object.
• At the end of this time, the pieces are ready to be conveyed to and fed into the softening machines where the fibres undergo a further process of bending and crushing.
• If the powers reserved are large, full representation in spite of all the crushing objections to it, will be absolutely necessary, in order to safeguard Irish interests.
• The loss was a crushing blow to Irving, from the effects of which he never recovered, although time softened the bitterness of his grief into a tender and sacred memory.
• Like Napoleon, the husband is thenceforth condemned to victories which, in spite of their number, do not prevent the first defeat from crushing him.

Similar words containing CRUSH without suffix ing

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