Crush vs. Crash

To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure

To break violently or noisily; smash

To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.

To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact

To put down with force; subdue

To make a sudden loud noise

To overwhelm or oppress severely

To move noisily or so as to cause damage

To defeat overwhelmingly

To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.

To crumple or rumple

(Computers) To stop functioning due to a crash.

To hug, especially with great force.

(Slang) To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.

To hit or propel with great force

To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.

To press upon, shove, or crowd.

To fall asleep from exhaustion.

To extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing

To cause to crash

To be or become crushed

To dash to pieces; smash

To proceed or move by crowding or pressing

(Informal) To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.

The act of crushing or the pressure involved in crushing

A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking

A great crowd

A smashing to pieces.

A substance prepared by or as if by crushing, especially a fruit drink

A collision, as between two automobiles.

A usually temporary infatuation

A sudden severe downturn

One who is the object of such an infatuation.

A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.

A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.

Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

(Slang) Mental depression after drug-taking.

A violent crowding.

A coarse, light, unevenly woven fabric of cotton or linen, used for towels and curtains.

A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

Starched reinforced fabric used to strengthen a book binding or the spine of a bound book.

(slang) A group or gang.

Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish

A crowd control barrier.

A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.

A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.

An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

(informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.

(computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

The human object of such infatuation or affection.

(finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).

A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.

(informal) A comedown from a drug.

(dated) A party or festive function.

(collective) A group of rhinoceroses.

(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.

(ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.

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.

(textiles) A type of rough linen.

A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.

Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.

(intransitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.

(transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.

(figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.

To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).

To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.

To oppress or grievously burden.

To give, as a favor.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.

(intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.

To terminate extraordinarily.

To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.

(intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.

To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

(transitive) To hit or strike with force

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; as, to crush grapes.

To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

To make a sudden loud noise.

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

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

To oppress or burden grievously.

To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

To subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch.

A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.

To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.

A loud resonant repeating noise;

Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles);

A dense crowd of people

A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

Temporary love of an adolescent

The act of colliding with something;

The act of crushing

(computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative;

Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority;

Fall or come down violently;

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;

Move with, or as if with, a crashing noise;

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;

Undergo damage or destruction on impact;

Break into small pieces;

Move violently as through a barrier;

Humiliate or depress completely;

Break violently or noisily; smash;

Crush or bruise;

Occupy, usually uninvited;

Make ineffective;

Enter uninvited; informal;

Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure;

Cause to crash;

Hurl or thrust violently;

Undergo a sudden and severe downturn;

Stop operating;

Sleep in a convenient place;