Usually means: Overwhelming force compressing or pulverizing.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. crushing: Merriam-Webster
  2. crushing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. crushing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Crushing, crushing: Wordnik
  5. crushing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. crushing: Wiktionary
  7. crushing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Crushing, crushing: Dictionary.com
  9. crushing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Crushing (album), Crushing (execution), Crushing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Crushing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. crushing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. crushing: Rhymezone
  14. Crushing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. crushing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. crushing: FreeDictionary.org
  17. crushing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. crushing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. crushing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. crushing: Legal dictionary
  2. crushing: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crushing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crushing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crushing: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crushing: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  That crushes; overwhelming.
adjective:  Devastatingly disheartening.
noun:  The action of the verb to crush.
noun:  A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim.
noun:  (in the plural) Crushed material.
noun:  The act of subjecting sugarcane to crushing.

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