Crush vs Fall - What's the difference?
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A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
* Addison
Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
A violent crowding
A crowd control barrier
A short-lived infatuation or affection for.
The human object of infatuation or affection.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling
A party, festive function
* 1890 ch 1
(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes place in.
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.
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
To oppress or burden grievously.
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
* Sir Walter Scott
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
(sports) to defeat emphatically
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To move downwards.
#To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
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#*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
#To come down, to drop or descend.
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#*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), (Bulldog Drummond) , Ch.1:
#*:Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron.
#To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
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#To be brought to the ground.
(lb) To be moved downwards.
#(lb) To let fall; to drop.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:For every tear he falls , a Trojan bleeds.
#(lb) To sink; to depress.
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# To fell; to cut down.
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(lb) To happen, to change negatively.
#(lb) To become.
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#To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); (said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date).
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#(lb) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
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# To die, especially in battle or by disease.
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#(lb) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
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#*Sir (c.1569-1626)
#*:The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
#*1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross),
#*:Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
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, title= #(lb) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words following; to become prostrated literally or figuratively .
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(lb) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:If to her share some female errors fall , / Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
To diminish; to lessen or lower.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities.
To bring forth.
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:(Shakespeare)
To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
:(Shakespeare)
To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
*(Bible)}, (w) iv.11:
*:Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
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To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
*(Bible), (w) iv.5:
*:Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell .
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:I have observed of late thy looks are fallen .
To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:The Romans fell on this model by chance.
*(Bible), (w) iii.18:
*:Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall .
*(Herbert Spenser) (1820-1903)
*:Primitive mendo not make laws, they fall into customs.
To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
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*(Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))
*:They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.
To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
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The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
A loss of greatness or status.
(label) A crucial event or circumstance.
# The action of a batsman being out.
# (label) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
# (label) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
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An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
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As verbs the difference between crush and fall
is that crush is 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 while fall is .As a noun crush
is a violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.crush
English
(wikipedia crush)Noun
(es)- the wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds
- A crush at a reception.
- It had taken nine years from the evening that 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 school crush .
- Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.
Derived terms
* crush hat * crush room * girl crush * man crushVerb
(es)- to crush grapes
- Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, crushed , broken or cut. --Lev. xxii.
- to crush quartz
- 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 was crushed to a jelly.
- ''After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
- The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
- speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels
- an eggshell crushes easily
- She's crushing on him.
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Derived terms
* crusher * crushing * crush on * crush out * crushed sugar * crushed velvetReferences
*fall
English
(wikipedia fall)Verb
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Quotations
* , Andrew Wi?e (publisher, 1598 — second quarto),Act V, Scene 3: *: Ghoa?t [of Clarence]. / To morrow in the battaile thinke on me, / And fall thy edgele??e ?word, di?paire and die.