crushing

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɹʌʃɪŋ/
Rhymes: -ʌʃɪŋ

Verb

crushing

present participle of crush

Adjective

crushing (comparative more crushing, superlative most crushing)

That crushes; overwhelming.
a crushing defeat
Devastatingly disheartening.
crushing guilt

Oh, your dog has leukemia? That’s crushing.

Synonyms

(disheartening):

gutting (British)
See also Thesaurus:disheartening

Translations

that crushes

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: съкрушителен (bg) (sǎkrušítelen)
Danish: knusende
Dutch: verpletterend (nl)
Faroese: knúsandi
Finnish: murskaava (fi)
French: écrasant (fr)
German: niederschmetternd
Greek: συντριπτικός (el) (syntriptikós)

Khmer: ដ៏ខ្លាំង (dɑɑ klaŋ), ដ៏ធំធេង (dɑɑ tʰom tʰeeŋ)
Norwegian: knusende
Polish: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: arrasador (pt)
Romanian: copleșitor (ro)
Russian: сокруши́тельный (ru) (sokrušítelʹnyj)
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: arrollador (es) m

Noun

crushing (countable and uncountable, plural crushings)

The action of the verb to crush.
A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim.
(in the plural) crushed material
oilseed crushings

Translations

action of the verb

Romanian: strivire (ro) f, turtire (ro) f, zdrobire (ro) f

Russian: дробле́ние (ru) n (droblénije) (breaking up), разда́вливание (ru) n (razdávlivanije), размельче́ние (ru) n (razmelʹčénije)

method of execution

Russian: уничтоже́ние (ru) n (uničtožénije), разруше́ние (ru) n (razrušénije)

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