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crush

noun as in crowd of animate beings

noun as in infatuation

Strongest match

Strong matches

verb as in humiliate

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Just last month, a construction worker suffered a “crush injury” after being pinned between two 4,000-foot pipes, according to police records.

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More than a dozen other workers have suffered severe injuries, including from falling without harnesses and getting crushed by forklifts.

Many coastal residents of Mindanao island had slept outdoors, fearful of being crushed to death by aftershocks of the 7.4- and 6.7-magnitude quakes that struck off the coast within hours of each other on Friday.

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Accused of crushing political opposition and rights activists, the government of Eswatini has given few details of the detainees or the deal it signed with the United States to take them in.

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Pogacar is a rider without a pronounced weakness—he can climb, he can sprint, he could crush you on a unicycle—and it’s created an air of resignation within the sport.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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