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crush

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" Crush (1980 Me) " is the fourth and final overall single released by Australian singer-songwriter Darren Hayes from his debut studio album, Spin . It reached number 19 on the UK Singles Chart . In Australia, it was released as the third single from the ...

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v. come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists" [syn: oppress , suppress ] to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" [syn: squash ...

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n. 1 A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. 2 Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd. 3 Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure. 4 A violent crowding 5 A crowd control barrier 6 An infatuation or affection for. 7 The human object ...

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Lionel Brown had fractured his left leg in at least two places, broken his left wrist, and probably crushed a couple of ribs.

David and the Major General, Abraham folds his arms tightly across his chest in an attempt to crush the anxiety he feels in his gut.

Inhaling a ragged, brutal breath, using every ounce of will bred into him by the harsh, Absarokee tradition, Hazard crushed down the overwhelming emotions driving him to take this woman and very deliberately pulled her arms from around his neck and stepped away from her.

Io transformed, just as we should see a stag as Actaeon, a bear as Callisto, and that when we instinctively move to crush a spider we should remember Arachne.

Ildiran Adar crushed the enemy at Qronha 3, sir, and I know what our new rammers are designed to do.

The Drujani rebelled against their Akkadian overlords a score and ten years ago, and were crushed mercilessly.

He spoke, and, gathering up his habit, he rushed among the crowd of penguins, pushing, jostling, trampling, and crushing, until he reached the daughter of Alca, whom he seized and suddenly carried in his arms into a cave that had been hollowed out by the sea.

It had been the command function on Sirius the Dog Star, had been command again in the Rigel System where the invaders and monstrous beings had been crushed, had held true on Algol VII where the great war of the frog men had resulted in their rout and in the glorious victory of the Federation even at the cost of several hundred thousand brave troops .

The artwork is classic Americana, the rugs handwoven, and the canopy on the bed 249 With a clipped growl, she crushed the sheet in her -hand and sent it after the others.

Thus the only overt attempt to resist the authority of Charles V, apart from one or two insignificant Anabaptist riots, was crushed.

He drank a lot, guffawed a lot, and walked with a moderate limp, a piece of equipment having crushed his anklebone in the welding shop.

The tier they had vacated tilled wildly, shuddered and finally sheared loose completely, rolling and tumbling down the slope, crushing hundreds of bodies of the thousands of stunned ants that packed the gorge.

Canaanites and the Aramaean neo-Hittites who crushed Shalmaneser III at the battle of Qarqar in 853 B.

Half fell in the bloody pool, crushing several of the Archai who were just climbing out.

She learned about stamp mills and the more primitive arrastra, used by the Mexicans and South Americans to crush gold-bearing rock.