1921, Alexis Thomson, Alexander Miles,Manual of Surgery:
The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; acrush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severecrush of the foot
1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page302:
Then there was another set who called themselves the "Ragged Thirteen"; and the account says "they looked it." And, like most diggers, this "crush," to quote my authority, could handle the cards a bit.
I've had a hugecrush on her since we met many years ago.
He took hiscrush out for dinner.
2019, Emma Lea,A Royal Enticement:
And I needed to get my schoolgirlcrush under control. There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend.
(informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation oraffection.
2004,Chris Wallace,Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
It had taken nine years from the evening thatTruman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday schoolcrush.
Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming thatcrush is a "gateway fetish"—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time.
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With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull wascrushed to a jelly.
We believe the invasion has reached its peak. The task remaining is tocrush it. Our men are confident, the United Nations command is confident, that it will becrushed.
2011 November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, inRTE Sport[2]:
A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as theycrushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn.
2000, “Aaron’s Party (Come Get It)”, performed byAaron Carter:
Then walked in / The girl I'mcrushin' / And the kid spilled juice / On my Mom's new cushion
2011, May'lon Miranda,Love Is Blind,→ISBN, page58:
... I could just let loose and be myself no holding back you know we just where to young kids in love, lust,crushing whatever you wanted to call it but we where living it up having fun when we where together the rest of the world didn't exist ...
2013, Sarra Manning,Diary of a Crush: Kiss and Make Up,→ISBN:
And the one subject that I get an A plus in every time, is the ancient art ofcrushing. Icrush, therefore I am. I've decided to share the benefit of my wisdom and after months of hopelessly lusting after Dylan, I've REALISED that there are twelve degrees ofcrushing from the slightly embarrassing things most girls will do to catch the eye of the heir to their heart, to the verging on ridiculous stunts you pull when you're in the grip of a passion that renders you powerless.
2013, Shozan Jack Haubner,Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk,→ISBN, page130:
"I respect your wiring," he explained, "but I'mcrushing on you. And when Icrush, Icrush hard." He thought it would be better if we stopped seeing each other for a while.
2003, Michel Chion,The Films of Jacques Tati, page78:
He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to thecrushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).
2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill,Theorising Media and Practice, page319:
They realise that trajectories, space expansion andcrushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.
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