CRUSHES Synonyms

• love intensely

• not plain; decorative or ornamented

• something many people believe that is false

• imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

• a predisposition to like something

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• have a fancy or particular liking or desire for

• love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol

• arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way

• resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination

• equal in amount or value

• having the same or similar characteristics

• a similar kind

• a kind of person

• conforming in every respect

• to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something

• find enjoyable or agreeable

• be fond of

• feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard

• want to have

• a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

• any object of warm affection or devotion

• a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

• a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction

• a score of zero in tennis or squash

• sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people

• have a great affection or liking for

• get pleasure from

• be enamored or in love with

• have sexual intercourse with

• a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side

• American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818)

• love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol

• regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

• the activity of worshipping

• a feeling of profound love and admiration

• love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol

• show devotion to (a deity)

• attend religious services

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• preserve of crushed fruit

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• a dense crowd of people

• deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems

• press tightly together or cram

• push down forcibly

• crush or bruise

• interfere with or prevent the reception of signals

• get stuck and immobilized

• crowd or pack to capacity

• block passage through

• a regular route for a sentry or policeman

• the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

• the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

• a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations

• a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

• the sound of stroke or blow

• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

• a regular rate of repetition

• a stroke or blow

• the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

• very tired

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

• hit repeatedly

• move rhythmically

• shape by beating

• make a rhythmic sound

• glare or strike with great intensity

• move with a thrashing motion

• sail with much tacking or with difficulty

• stir vigorously

• strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music

• be superior

• avoid paying

• make a sound like a clock or a timer

• move with a flapping motion

• indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks

• move with or as if with a regular alternating motion

• make by pounding or trampling

• produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly

• strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

• beat through cleverness and wit

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• wear out completely

• an increase in the density of something

• the act of crushing

• the sound of something crunching

• a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)

• the act of crushing

• make a crushing noise

• press or grind with a crushing noise

• crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration

• temporary love of an adolescent

• an object of extravagant short-lived passion

• a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing

• mixture of ground animal feeds

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• cause to suffer

• the state of demanding notice or attention

• the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines

• a machine used for printing

• a dense crowd of people

• a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

• clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use

• any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids

• a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead

• the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure

• exert pressure or force to or upon

• force or impel in an indicated direction

• to be oppressive or burdensome

• place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure

• squeeze or press together

• crowd closely

• create by pressing

• be urgent

• exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for

• press from a plastic

• make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby

• press and smooth with a heated iron

• lift weights

• ask for or request earnestly

• ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun

• the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals

• hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

• the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts

• the exterior covering of a bird's egg

• a rigid covering that envelops an object

• a very light narrow racing boat

• the housing or outer covering of something

• a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

• the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod

• use explosives on

• create by using explosives

• fall out of the pod or husk

• hit the pitches of hard and regularly

• look for and collect shells by the seashore

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• remove from its shell or outer covering

• remove the husks from

• a vigorous blow

• a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)

• a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head

• the act of colliding with something

• a conspicuous success

• with a loud crash

• hit with great force

• break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over

• reduce to bankruptcy

• hit violently

• humiliate or depress completely

• damage or destroy as if by violence

• hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke

• collide or strike violently and suddenly

• overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)

• break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow