What is the difference between crush and squeeze?
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A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
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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 apply pressure to from two or more sides at once
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(ambitransitive) To fit into a tight place
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To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty
To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices
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(figurative) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
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(baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting
A difficult position
A traversal of a narrow passage
A hug or other affectionate grasp
(slang) A romantic partner
(baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third
(epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
(card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
(archaic) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China.
As nouns the difference between crush and squeeze
is that crush is a violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin while squeeze is a difficult position.As verbs the difference between crush and squeeze
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 squeeze is to apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.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
*squeeze
English
Verb
(squeez)- I squeezed the ball between my hands.
- Please don't squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middle.
- "Over there—by the rock," Steele muttered, with his brush between his teeth, squeezing out raw sienna, and keeping his eyes fixed on Betty Flanders's back.
- I managed to squeeze the car into that parking space.
- Can you squeeze through that gap?
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- Could he not squeeze under the seat of a carriage? He had seen this method adopted by schoolboys, when the journey- money provided by thoughtful parents had been diverted to other and better ends.
- He squeezed some money out of his wallet.
- I'm being squeezed between my job and my volunteer work.
British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
- In a civil war, people must expect to be crushed and squeezed toward the burden.
- Jones squeezed in Smith with a perfect bunt.
Derived terms
(terms derived from the verb "squeeze") * squeezable * squeezebox * squeeze in * squeeze out * squeezer * squeezy * unsqueezeNoun
(en noun)- I'm in a tight squeeze right now when it comes to my free time.
- It was a tight squeeze , but I got through to the next section of the cave.
- a gentle squeeze on the arm
- I want to be your main squeeze
- The game ended in exciting fashion with a failed squeeze .
- The light not being good enough for photography, I took a squeeze of the stone.