Usually means: Intense, fleeting feelings of attraction.
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  1. crushes: Merriam-Webster
  2. crushes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. crushes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Crushes, crushes: Wordnik
  5. crushes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. crushes: Wiktionary
  7. crushes: Dictionary.com
  8. crushes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. crushes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. crushes: Legal dictionary
  2. crushes: Financial dictionary

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  1. crushes: Encyclopedia

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  1. crushes: Medical dictionary

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  1. crushes: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (crush)

noun:  A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
noun:  Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
noun:  A violent crowding.
noun:  A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
noun:  (slang) A group or gang.
noun:  A crowd control barrier.
noun:  A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
noun:  (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
noun:  (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
noun:  A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
noun:  (dated) A party or festive function.
noun:  (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
noun:  (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
noun:  (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
verb:  To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
verb:  To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
verb:  (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
verb:  (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
verb:  To oppress or grievously burden.
verb:  To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
verb:  (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
verb:  (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
verb:  (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
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