verb
- Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority.
- usage: "The government oppresses political activists"
- To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition.
- usage: "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
- Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.
- usage: "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- Break into small pieces.
- usage: "The car crushed the toy"
- synonyms: crush
- Humiliate or depress completely.
- usage: "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
- Crush or bruise.
- usage: "jam a toe"
- Make ineffective.
- usage: "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
- synonyms: break down, crush
- Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure.
- usage: "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
- synonyms: crush
adjective
- Treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance.
- usage: "crushed velvet"
- Subdued or brought low in condition or status.
- usage: "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
- synonyms: broken, humbled, humiliated, low
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