CRUSH

Crush

Crush is Bon Jovi's seventh studio album, released on June 13, 2000 through Island Records. It was their first studio album since These Days in 1995. The album was produced by Luke Ebbin, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora.

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crush

Noun

  1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  2. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.
  3. A short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation; the object of this infatuation.
  4. A violent crowding
  5. A crowd control barrier
  6. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling
  7. A party, festive function
  8. The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar. The season that this process takes place in.

Verb

  1. 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.
  2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
    to crush quartz
  3. 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
  4. To oppress or burden grievously.
  5. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
    The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
  6. To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
    an eggshell crushes easily
  7. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
    She's crushing on him.
  8. to defeat emphatically


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