crush
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From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *crusciō (“to brush”), from Frankish *krustijan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”), from Proto-Germanic *kreustaną (“to crush, grind, strike, smash”). Cognate with Middle Low German tokrosten (“to crush, shatter”).
Akin also to Middle Dutch crosen (“to bruise, crush”), Middle Low German krossen, krȫsen (“to break, shatter”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”), Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to gnash”).
crush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)
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crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)
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crush m or f (invariable)
Unadapted borrowing from English crush, from Middle English cruschen, from Old French croissir, from Late Latin *crusciō, from Frankish *krostjan.
crush m pers
singular | plural | |
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nominative | crush | crushowie/crushy (deprecative) |
genitive | crusha | crushów |
dative | crushowi | crushom |
accusative | crusha | crushów |
instrumental | crushem | crushami |
locative | crushu | crushach |
vocative | crushu | crushowie |
Unadapted borrowing from English crush.
crush m or f or m or f by sense (plural crushes or crush)
Unadapted borrowing from English crush.
crush m (plural crushes)
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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