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Crush vs. Pinch — What's the Difference?

Crush vs. Pinch — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Crush and Pinch

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Crush

To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure
The falling rock crushed the car.

Pinch

To squeeze (something) between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges.

Crush

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

Pinch

To cause pain or discomfort to (a part of the body) by pressing or being too tight
These shoes pinch my toes.

Crush

To put down with force; subdue
The regime crushed the rebellion.
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Pinch

To nip, wither, or shrivel
Buds that were pinched by the frost.
A face that was pinched with grief.

Crush

To overwhelm or oppress severely
Spirits that had been crushed by rejection and failure.

Pinch

To cause to be in difficulty or financial distress
"A year and a half of the blockade has pinched Germany" (William L. Shirer).

Crush

To defeat overwhelmingly
Our team was crushed in the playoffs.

Pinch

(Slang) To take (money or property) wrongfully.

Crush

To crumple or rumple
Crushed the freshly ironed shirt.

Pinch

(Slang) To take into custody; arrest.

Crush

To hug, especially with great force.

Pinch

To move (something) with a pinch bar.

Crush

To hit or propel with great force
A swing of the bat that crushed a fastball over the wall.

Pinch

(Nautical) To sail (a boat) so close into the wind that its sails shiver and its speed is reduced.

Crush

To press upon, shove, or crowd.

Pinch

To press, squeeze, or bind painfully
This collar pinches.

Crush

To extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing
Crush juice from a grape.

Pinch

To draw a thumb and a finger together on a touchscreen to cause the image to become smaller.

Crush

To be or become crushed
Aluminum cans crush easily.

Pinch

To be frugal or miserly
If we pinch, we might save some money.

Crush

To proceed or move by crowding or pressing
The fans crushed forward to get a glimpse of the movie star.

Pinch

(Nautical) To drag an oar at the end of a stroke.

Crush

The act of crushing or the pressure involved in crushing
Matter superheated by the crush of gravity around black holes.

Pinch

The act or an instance of pinching.

Crush

A great crowd
A crush of spectators.

Pinch

An amount that can be held between thumb and forefinger
A pinch of salt.

Crush

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

Pinch

Difficulty or hardship
Felt the pinch of the recession.

Crush

A usually temporary infatuation
Had a crush on her friend's cousin.

Pinch

An emergency situation
This coat will do in a pinch.

Crush

One who is the object of such an infatuation.

Pinch

A narrowing of a mineral deposit, as in a mine.

Crush

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

Pinch

(Informal) A theft.

Crush

Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

Pinch

(Slang) An arrest by a law enforcement officer.

Crush

A violent crowding.

Pinch

Relating to pinch-hitting or pinch runners
A pinch single.
A pinch steal of third base.

Crush

A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
A crush at a reception

Pinch

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
The children were scolded for pinching each other.
This shoe pinches my foot.

Crush

(slang) A group or gang.

Pinch

To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

Crush

A crowd control barrier.

Pinch

To squeeze between two objects.

Crush

A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.

Pinch

(intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.

Crush

(informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.

Pinch

To steal, usually something inconsequential.
Someone has pinched my handkerchief!

Crush

The human object of such infatuation or affection.

Pinch

To arrest or capture.

Crush

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

Pinch

(horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.

Crush

(dated) A party or festive function.

Pinch

(nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.

Crush

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

Pinch

(hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

Crush

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.
Black crush; white crush

Pinch

To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

Crush

A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.

Pinch

(of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.

Crush

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 crush grapes

Pinch

(figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
To be pinched for money

Crush

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
To crush quartz

Pinch

To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.

Crush

(figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections

Pinch

(obsolete) To complain or find fault.

Crush

To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!

Pinch

The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

Crush

To oppress or grievously burden.

Pinch

A close compression of anything with the fingers.
I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.

Crush

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.

Pinch

A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
Mix about four cups of white flour with a pinch of salt.

Crush

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

Pinch

An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.

Crush

To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
She's crushing on him.

Pinch

A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.

Crush

To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.

Pinch

An organic herbal smoke additive.

Crush

To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.

Pinch

(physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.

Crush

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.

Pinch

The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.

Crush

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

Pinch

(slang) An arrest.

Crush

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.

Pinch

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.

Crush

To oppress or burden grievously.
Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway.

Pinch

To seize; to grip; to bite; - said of animals.
He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.

Crush

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels.

Pinch

To plait.
Full seemly her wimple ipinched was.

Crush

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

Pinch

Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation.

Crush

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

Pinch

To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift.

Crush

A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Pinch

To catch; to arrest (a criminal).

Crush

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.

Pinch

To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.

Crush

Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

Pinch

To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

Crush

A dense crowd of people

Pinch

To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare.

Crush

Temporary love of an adolescent

Pinch

A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.

Crush

The act of crushing

Pinch

As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.

Crush

Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority;
The government oppresses political activists

Pinch

Pian; pang.

Crush

To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;
Crush an aluminum can
Squeeze a lemon

Pinch

A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, - used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

Crush

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

Pinch

A painful or straitened circumstance;
The pinch of the recession

Crush

Break into small pieces;
The car crushed the toy

Pinch

An injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed

Crush

Humiliate or depress completely;
She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation
The death of her son smashed her

Pinch

A slight but appreciable addition;
This dish could use a touch of garlic

Crush

Crush or bruise;
Jam a toe

Pinch

A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action;
He never knew what to do in an emergency

Crush

Make ineffective;
Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination

Pinch

Small sharp biting

Crush

Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure;
The plastic bottle crushed against the wall

Pinch

A squeeze with the fingers

Pinch

The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal);
The policeman on the beat got credit for the collar

Pinch

Squeeze tightly between the fingers;
He pinched her behind
She squeezed the bottle

Pinch

Make ridges into by pinching together

Pinch

Make off with belongings of others

Pinch

Cut the top off;
Top trees and bushes

Pinch

Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear;
Smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth
The pain is as if sharp points pinch your back

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