(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
(v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
(v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.
(v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
(v. i.) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.
(n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
(n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(2) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(3) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
(4) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
(5) In case 2, a 26-year-old man sustained an open total dislocation of the talus with a severe crush wound and impaired circulation to the foot.
(6) "Everyone has been blasted by anonymous figures who crushed the economy.
(7) The main objective of these experiments was to develop and characterize a new experimental model of venous thrombosis, and determine whether a combination of vascular wall damage (crushing with hemostat clamps) and prolonged stasis produced more reproducible clots than prolonged stasis per se.
(8) Despite a glorious career, her Olympic history had been one of crushing disappointment.
(9) In one group of rats, the RGC proteins were labeled 1 week after crushing.
(10) In adrenergic axons NA, DBH-IR and TH-IR accumulated with time after crushing the nerve as described earlier with biochemical techniques.
(11) This is the first reported case, to the best of my knowledge, of disk neovascularization occurring after intravenously injected, crushed, unfiltered, methylphenidate HCl tablets.
(12) An epidemic of abuse with "T's and blues" began in the late 1970's in which pentazocine-Talwin tablets ("T")--and the antihistamine tripelennamine (known as blues) were crushed, dissolved together, filtered, and injected intravenously.
(13) Labeled axons were first detected in the segment of optic nerve lying distal to the crush site 1 week after injury and had extended as far as 2.3 mm beyond the crush site by 60 days postinjury, growing at a rate similar to that at which the collateral branches of developing ganglion cell axons extend into their targets.
(14) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
(15) Freeze-dried crushed cortical bone allografts were implanted into widemouthed three-wall, two-wall, one-wall, combination, and furcation defects.
(16) Previous work from our laboratory had shown that goldfish retinal fragments explanted onto a polylysine substratum 1 to 2 weeks following optic nerve crush exhibit a striking clockwise pattern of neuritic outgrowth.
(17) Thus did Dominic Cummings, former special adviser to Michael Gove , deliver to his prime minister what is, in certain Tory circles, the most crushing of insults.
(18) Isis recently threatened to kill American hostages to avenge the crushing airstrikes in Iraq against militants advancing on Mount Sinjar and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
(19) Addictive onion consumption was prevented by mixing chopped or crushed onions in a total balanced ration.
(20) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.
Squelch
Definition:
(v. t.) To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
(n.) A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply.
Example Sentences:
(1) What was shaping a week ago to be the second successive, evenly balanced and see-saw NBA finals between these teams instead proved shockingly one-sided, as Miami were squelched for the third time in six days and lost the best-of-seven series by four games to one.
(2) The effects of the amplitude of the squelch signal and of the degree of smoothing were systematically investigated for experimental and simulated 1-D and 2-D rf echograms.
(3) In Beijing I witnessed recently how the only Chinese demonstration against the war was squelched by police, while a march by foreign residents was tolerated for just 20 minutes.
(4) The ability of the c-Jun protein, the main component of the transcription factor AP1, to interact directly or indirectly with the RNA polymerase II-initiation complex to activate transcription was investigated by in vivo transcription interference ("squelching") experiments.
(5) The GAL-TAF-1 activator was found to self-squelch without affecting basal transcription.
(6) The emerging popularity of the procedure was squelched by the frequent complication of gastrojejunal stomal ulceration.
(7) Zhou established Fengrui in 2007 and the next year took on one of the country’s biggest dairies in a scandal over tainted baby formula that the government had tried to squelch.
(8) Here, we provide evidence that EB1 and R can synergistically activate specific transcription, and that overexpressed, unbound EB1, represses the R-induced transcription ('squelching').
(9) We have to watch for and cultivate and encourage those glimmers of curiosity and possibility, not suppress them, not squelch them,” Obama told the audience on the South Lawn, which included astronauts, scientists and students.
(10) Interestingly, at high concentrations human jun-D displays decreased activity which cannot be explained by a simple self squelching model.
(11) These purified cofactors were found to be required for CTF-1-regulated transcription, and they counteracted squelching by an excess of activator in in vitro reconstitution experiments.
(12) We don’t go around that way when there are big tides,” I was told with unblinking frankness as I squelched up to my hotel reception desk.
(13) When excess v-jun is expressed in the cell, replication is inhibited or 'squelched'.
(14) We suggest that this inhibition, which we call squelching, reflects titration of a transcription factor by the activating region of GAL4.
(15) A similar level of squelching was seen after removal of the up-stream activation sequences from the yeast reporter gene, suggesting that the squelching interactions were with transcription factors needed for the activity of a basal promoter.
(16) Worse yet, some will demand they be violently squelched, as Brazilian soccer great Ronaldo did when he suggested that police crack down on masked vandals: "I think they have to bring down the clubs, get them off the street."
(17) These images are termed according to their algorithms: ZCS, zero crossing counter with squelch; ASS, analytic signal with squelch; ASW, analytic signal with Wiener kernel; UNP, unwrapped phase; and SAS, smoothed analytic signal.
(18) Once, this place may have been a shit-hole, but it was teeming, hopping, crowded" – and we squelch our way past Desolation Row to a little corner of Cairns Street where the resolute people remain.
(19) These findings suggest that saturation of the cellular capacity to mediate an estrogen response and ER-dependent squelching occur at receptor titers well above those encountered in nature.
(20) An incision was made to remove the abscess, but instead of finding pus, massive bleeding ensued whose source could not be located; it was squelched by tampons.