Verb

(en verb)

(label) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.

# (label) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass.

#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

strange materials packed up with wonderful art

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Wherethe bones / Of all my buried ancestors are packed .

# (label) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.

#*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed , and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

# (label) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.

# (label) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam.

# (label) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

# (label) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass.

# (label) To gather in flocks or schools.

(label) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.

# To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.

#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.

# (label) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.

#* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)

The expected council was dwindling intoa packed assembly of Italian bishops.

# (label) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

#* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

He lost lifeupon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.

# (label) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

#* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,

This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.

(label) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey

To move, send or carry.

# (label) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.

# To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).

# (label) To depart in haste; – generally with off'' or ''away .

#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

Poor Stella must pack off to town.

#* (1809-1892)

You shall pack , / And never more darken my doors again.

# To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.

To block a shot, especially in basketball.

To wear a simulated penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.

Verb

(es)

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 crush grapes

Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, crushed , broken or cut. --Lev. xxii.

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.

to crush quartz

* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1

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.

To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

''After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections

To oppress or burden grievously.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.

* Sir Walter Scott

speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels

To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force

an eggshell crushes easily

To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.

She's crushing on him.

(sports) to defeat emphatically

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=November 11 , author=Rory Houston , title=Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland , work=RTE Sport citation , page= , passage=A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn.}}