Crush
King James Dictionary [1]
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.
The ass--crushed Balaams foot against the wall. Numbers 22 .
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.
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.
To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
Who are crushed before the moth. Job 4 .
4. To overwhelm by power to subdue to conquer beyond resistance as, to crush ones enemies to crush a rebellion. 5. To oppress grievously.
Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always. Deuteronomy 28 .
6. To bruise and break into fine particles by beating or grinding to comminute.
CRUSH, To be pressed into a smaller compass by external weight or force.
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.
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
(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.
(3): (v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
(4): (n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
(5): (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
(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.
(7): (v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.
(8): (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
a strengthened form of thlibo, "to throng" (apo, intensive), is used in 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., Numbers 22:25 .
