Word Meanings - CRUSHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That crushes; overwhelming. "The blow must be quick and crushing." Macualay.

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• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• OVERWHELM
  1. To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
• QUICKSILVER
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
• QUICKHATCH
  The wolverine.
• QUICKEN TREE
  The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. (more info) aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum,
• QUICKWORK
  All the submerged section of a vessel's planking. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps. The short planks between the portholes.
• CRUSH
  LL. cruscire, prob. of Ger. origin, from a derivative of the word seen in Goth. kruistan to gnash; akin to Sw. krysta to squeeze, Dan. 1. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of
• QUICK-WITTED
  Having ready wit Shak.
• OVERWHELMING
  Overpowering; irresistible. -- O`ver*whelm"ing*ly, adv.
• QUICKENS
  Quitch grass.
• QUICK-SCENTED
  Acute of smell.
• QUICKSILVERING
  The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
• QUICKLY
  Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
• QUICK
  cwicu, cwucu, cucu, living; akin to OS. quik, D. kwik, OHG. quec, chec, G. keck bold, lively, Icel. kvikr living, Goth. qius, Lith. qyvas, Russ. zhivoi, L. vivus living, vivere to live, Gr. bi`os life, Skr. jiva living, jiv to live. Cf. Biography,
• QUICKSET
  A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
• QUICKENER
  One who, or that which, quickens.
• QUICKENING
  The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life. (more info) 1. The
• QUICKEN
  To shorten the radius of ; to make sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced. Syn. -- To revive; resuscitate; animate; reinvigorate; vivify; refresh; stimulate; sharpen; incite; hasten; accelerate; expedite;
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• REQUICKEN
  To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to. Shak.
• DOUBLE-QUICK
  Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.
• UNQUICK
  Not quick. Daniel.