Difference between revisions of "Crush"

<p> [[Crush]] </p> 1. To press and bruise between two hard bodies to squeeze, so as to force a thing out of its natural shape to bruise by pressure. <p> The ass--crushed Balaams foot against the wall. &nbsp;Numbers 22 . </p> <p> To crush grapes or apples, is to squeeze them till bruised and broken, so that the juice escapes. Hence, to crush out, is to force out by pressure. </p> 2. To press with violence to force together into a mass. 3. To overwhelm by pressure to beat or force down, by an incumbent weight, with breaking or bruising as, the man was crushed by the fall of a tree. <p> To crush the pillars which the pile sustain. </p> <p> Who are crushed before the moth. &nbsp;Job 4 . </p> 4. To overwhelm by power to subdue to conquer beyond resistance as, to crush ones enemies to crush a rebellion. 5. To oppress grievously. <p> Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always. &nbsp;Deuteronomy 28 . </p> 6. To bruise and break into fine particles by beating or grinding to comminute. <p> CRUSH, To be pressed into a smaller compass by external weight or force. </p> <p> CRUSH, n. A violent collision, or rushing together, which breaks or bruises the bodies or a fall that breaks or bruises into a confused mass as the crush of a large tree, or of a building. </p> <p> The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. </p>

<p> '''(1):''' (n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception. </p> <p> '''(5):''' (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz. </p> <p> '''(6):''' (v. t.) To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes. </p> <p> '''(7):''' (v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously. </p> <p> '''(8):''' (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight. </p>

<div> '''1: '''''Ἀποθλίβω''''' ''' (Strong'S #598 — Verb — apothlibo — ap-oth-lee'-bo ) </div> <p> a strengthened form of thlibo, "to throng" (apo, intensive), is used in &nbsp;Luke 8:45 , RV, "crush," for AV, "press," of the multitude who were pressing around Christ (cp. the preceding word sunecho, "to press"). In the Sept., &nbsp;Numbers 22:25 . </p>