crush

• vt. 押しつぶす；しわを寄せる；歪める；押し込む
• vi. 押しつぶす；押しつぶされる
• n. 押しつぶす；こだわる；押しつける；群がる；押し寄せる

擬音語。

crush

crush: [14] The emergence of crush is something of a mystery. English borrowed it from Old French croissir, but it is not clear where Old French got it from. Some consider it to be of Romance origin, postulating a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *cruscīre to account for it, but others suggest that Old French may have borrowed it from Germanic, pointing to the similarity of Middle Low German krossen ‘crush’.

crush (v.)

mid-14c., from Old French cruissir (Modern French écraser), variant of croissir "to gnash (teeth), crash, break," perhaps from Frankish *krostjan "to gnash" (cognates: Gothic kriustan, Old Swedish krysta "to gnash"). Figurative sense of "to humiliate, demoralize" is c. 1600. Related: Crushed; crushing. Italian crosciare, Catalan cruxir, Spanish crujirare "to crack" are Germanic loan-words.

crush (n.)

1590s, "act of crushing," from crush (v.). Meaning "thick crowd" is from 1806. Sense of "person one is infatuated with" is first recorded 1884; to have a crush on is from 1913.

1. Put both vegetables into a bowl and crush with a potato masher.

この2つの野菜を1つのボウルに入れ、じゃがいもつき器でつぶします。

2.Franklin and his thirteen-year-old son somehow got separated in the crush .

フランクリンと13歳の息子が人ごみの中で散り散りになった。

3.Every-where he went he was mobbed by a crush of fans.

彼は行く先々で大勢のファンが彼を取り囲んでいる。

4.The government is trying to crush a secessionist movement.

政府は分離運動を鎮圧しようとしている。

5.Three people were asphyxiated in the crush for last week 's train.

先週の列車衝突事故で3人が窒息死した。