Crush
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception. A short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation; the object of this infatuation. A violent crowding A crowd control barrier A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling A party, festive function
Part of speech: verb
Definition: 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 reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight. To oppress or burden grievously. To overcome completely; to subdue totally. To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
Example sentence: The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
Press
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A device used to apply pressure to an item.A collective term for the print based media (both the people and the newspapers)An enclosed storage space (eg closet, cupboard).A printing machine.An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weightto compress, squeezeto clasp, hold in an embrace; to hugto reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smoothTo flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain directionto weigh upon, oppress, troubleto force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impelto hasten, urge onwardto urge, beseech, entreatto lay stress upon, emphasizeto throng, crowdto print
Example sentence: What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.