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Crushing
- verb - become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
- break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy"
- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
- humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
- make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
- physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection";
Crustier
- adjective - brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"
- having a hardened crust as a covering
Crustily
- - In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.
Crusting
- verb - form a crust or form into a crust; "The bread crusted in the oven"
Crustose
- adjective - (of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing; "crustose lichens"
Crutched
- - Supported upon crutches.
Crutches
- noun - a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking
- anything that serves as an expedient; "he uses drugs as a psychological crutch"
Cruzeiro
- unknown - Brazilian currency between 1942 and 1986
Cryogens
- noun - a liquid that boils at below -160 C and is used as a refrigerant
Cryogeny
- noun - the branch of physics that studies the phenomena that occur at very low temperatures