Love vs. Crush — What's the Difference?

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food.

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

A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.

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

A strong feeling of affection and concern for another person accompanied by sexual attraction.

To put down with force; subdue

A feeling of devotion or adoration toward God or a god.

To overwhelm or oppress severely

A feeling of kindness or concern by God or a god toward humans.

To defeat overwhelmingly

Often Love(Christianity) Charity.

To crumple or rumple

Sexual desire or activity

To hug, especially with great force.

An instance of being in love

To hit or propel with great force

A person for whom one has strong feelings of affection

To press upon, shove, or crowd.

Used as a term of endearment for such a person.

To extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing

An intense emotional attachment to something, as to a pet or treasured object.

To be or become crushed

An expression of one's affection

To proceed or move by crowding or pressing

A strong predilection or enthusiasm

The act of crushing or the pressure involved in crushing

The object of such an enthusiasm

A great crowd

Love(Mythology) Eros or Cupid.

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

(Sports) A score of zero, as in tennis.

A usually temporary infatuation

To feel love for (a person)

One who is the object of such an infatuation.

To feel sexual love for (a person).

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

To feel devotion to (God or a god).

Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

To feel or show kindness or concern to (a person). Used of God or a god.

A violent crowding.

To have an intense emotional attachment to

A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

To embrace or caress

(slang) A group or gang.

To have sexual intercourse with.

A crowd control barrier.

To like or desire enthusiastically

A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.

To thrive on; need

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

To feel love or sexual love for another.

The human object of such infatuation or affection.

(uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.

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

(uncountable) Strong affection.

(dated) A party or festive function.

A profound and caring affection towards someone.

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

Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.

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 feeling of intense attraction towards someone.

A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.

A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.

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

(countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.

A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

(figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.

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

(euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.

To oppress or grievously burden.

(euphemistic) Sexual activity.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.

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

Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.

To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

(obsolete) A thin silk material.

To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.

A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.

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

Zero, no score.

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.

Nothing; no recompense.

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

To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

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

(transitive) To need, thrive on.

To oppress or burden grievously.

(transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

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

(transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.

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

To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

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

A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.

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

Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.

Leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

Courtship; - chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.

A dense crowd of people

Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; - opposed to hate; often with of and an object.

Temporary love of an adolescent

Due gratitude and reverence to God.

The act of crushing

The object of affection; - often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading.

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

Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

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

A thin silk stuff.

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

A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis Vitalba).

Break into small pieces;

Nothing; no points scored on one side; - used in counting score at tennis, etc.

Humiliate or depress completely;

Sexual intercourse; - a euphemism.

Crush or bruise;

To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.

Make ineffective;

To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.

Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure;

To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.

To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

A strong positive emotion of regard and affection;

Any object of warm affection or devotion;

A beloved person; used as terms of endearment

A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction;

A score of zero in tennis or squash;

Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people;

Have a great affection or liking for;

Get pleasure from;

Be enamored or in love with;

Have sexual intercourse with;