0 past simple and past participle of crush
1 to press something very hard so that it is broken or its shape is destroyed:
3 to defeat someone completely:
4 to do something easily or extremely well:
They did OK in the semi-finals but crushed it in the finals.
Many people were crushed underfoot when the police tried to break up the demonstration.
Sugar is obtained by crushing and processing sugar cane.
Try not to crush your jacket on the journey - hang it up in the back of the car.
On both slides the specimens have been rather badly crushed under the coverslip.
Neither is crushed by the new environmental ethics juggernaut.
Incubation vessels inside the chamber were filled with sterile sand, inoculated with crushed sandstone-based biofilms and allowed to incubate for 5.5 months.