Crush vs. Attraction — What's the Difference?

To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure

The act or capability of attracting.

To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.

The quality of attracting; charm.

To put down with force; subdue

A feature or characteristic that attracts.

To overwhelm or oppress severely

A person, place, thing, or event that is intended to attract

To defeat overwhelmingly

A force exerted between bodies that tends to draw or hold them together, such as gravitational force or the electric or magnetic force between bodies of opposite polarity.

To crumple or rumple

The tendency to attract.

To hug, especially with great force.

The feeling of being attracted.

To hit or propel with great force

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

To press upon, shove, or crowd.

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

To extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing

(linguistics) An error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another, e.g. when a verb agrees with a noun other than its subject.

To be or become crushed

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.

To proceed or move by crowding or pressing

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

The act of crushing or the pressure involved in crushing

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

A great crowd

That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.

A substance prepared by or as if by crushing, especially a fruit drink

The force by which one object attracts another

A usually temporary infatuation

An entertainment that is offered to the public

One who is the object of such an infatuation.

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

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

A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts;

Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

An entertainer who attracts large audiences;

A violent crowding.

A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

(slang) A group or gang.

A crowd control barrier.

A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.

(informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.

The human object of such infatuation or affection.

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

(dated) A party or festive function.

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

The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.

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

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.

(figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).

To oppress or grievously burden.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

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

To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.

To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

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.

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

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

To oppress or burden grievously.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

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

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

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

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

Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

A dense crowd of people

Temporary love of an adolescent

The act of crushing

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

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

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

Break into small pieces;

Humiliate or depress completely;

Crush or bruise;

Make ineffective;

Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure;