Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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crush | Yes | No | Yes | No |
steamroller | Yes | No | Yes | No |
crush (noun) | steamroller (noun) |
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the act of crushing | vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements |
temporary love of an adolescent | a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way |
a dense crowd of people | |
leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated |
crush (verb) | steamroller (verb) |
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break into small pieces | make level or flat with a steamroller |
become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure | overwhelm by using great force |
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | crush with a steamroller as if to level |
make ineffective | proceed with great force |
to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure |
crush or bruise | |
humiliate or depress completely | |
come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority |