LekhoriLekhoriA violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot
Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
A violent crowding.
From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *crusciō (“to crush”), from Frankish *krustijan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”),...
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To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections