Crush vs. Attraction

Crushnoun

A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

Attractionnoun

The tendency to attract.

‘The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity.’;

Crushnoun

Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

Attractionnoun

The feeling of being attracted.

‘I felt a strange attraction towards the place.’;

Crushnoun

A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

‘a crush at a reception’;

Attractionnoun

(countable) An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in many cases, local residents.

‘The new mall should be a major attraction.’; ‘Star Tours is a very cool Disney World attraction.’;

Crushnoun

A violent crowding.

Attractionnoun

(chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.

Crushnoun

A crowd control barrier.

Attractionnoun

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

Crushnoun

An infatuation or affection for someone you are not dating.

‘I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.’;

Attractionnoun

The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.

Crushnoun

The human object of such infatuation or affection.

Attractionnoun

The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.

Crushnoun

A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.

Attractionnoun

That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.

Crushnoun

(dated) A party or festive function.

Attractionnoun

the force by which one object attracts another

Crushnoun

(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes place in.

Attractionnoun

an entertainment that is offered to the public

Crushverb

To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.

‘to crush grapes’;

Attractionnoun

the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts;

‘her personality held a strange attraction for him’;

Crushverb

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding

‘to crush quartz’;

Attractionnoun

a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts;

‘flowers are an attractor for bees’;

Crushverb

(figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

‘After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections’;

Attractionnoun

an entertainer who attracts large audiences;

‘he was the biggest drawing card they had’;

Crushverb

To oppress or grievously burden.

Crushverb

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

‘The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.’;

Crushverb

(intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force

‘an eggshell crushes easily’;

Crushverb

(intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

‘She's crushing on him.’;

Crushverb

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.

‘Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut.’; ‘The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall.’;

Crushverb

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

Crushverb

To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

‘To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.’; ‘Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.’;

Crushverb

To oppress or burden grievously.

‘Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway.’;

Crushverb

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

‘Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels.’;

Crushverb

to subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch.

Crushverb

To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

Crushnoun

A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

‘The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.’;

Crushnoun

Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.

‘Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night.’;

Crushnoun

leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

Crushnoun

a dense crowd of people

Crushnoun

temporary love of an adolescent

Crushnoun

the act of crushing

Crushverb

come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority;

‘The government oppresses political activists’;

Crushverb

to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;

‘crush an aluminum can’; ‘squeeze a lemon’;

Crushverb

come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;

‘Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship’; ‘We beat the competition’; ‘Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game’;

Crushverb

break into small pieces;

‘The car crushed the toy’;

Crushverb

humiliate or depress completely;

‘She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation’; ‘The death of her son smashed her’;

Crushverb

crush or bruise;

‘jam a toe’;

Crushverb

make ineffective;

‘Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination’;

Crushverb

become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure;

‘The plastic bottle crushed against the wall’;