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Definition: Crushing |
CrushingAdjective1. Physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing". Noun1. Forceful prevention: "suppression of liberal newspapers"; "quelling of the revolution". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crushing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Environment | Processing of bulky objects, by pressure or impact, into a size suitable for disposal or further treatment by, for example, grinding; cf. fragmentation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The process of crushing grapes with a crusher or grape mill or by pounding them with a masher or rammer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A)strongly flocculated look-through in paper or board caused by the displacement of fibre clusters during the wet pressing operation; b)blackening, transparent patches(windows, fish eyes), holes or cracks in paper or board arising during glazing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | The production of a grinding surface of any required shape by means of suitable steel rollers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Size reduction into relatively coarse particles by stamps, crushers, orrolls. See also:comminution. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Death by crushing, as a method of execution, had a long and bloody history, and the techniques to achieve this end varied greatly from place to place. This form of execution is, however, no longer sanctioned by any governing body.The most common method of death by crushing was through the use of elephants. This practice was ubiquitous throughout South and South-East Asia for over 4,000 years of recorded history, and perhaps before that. The Romans and Carthaginians also used this method on occasion. Please see crushing by elephants.
Throughout history, other forms of crushing have also been used. Pressing by weights is perhaps the most common of these. During the Salem Witch Trials, Giles Cory refused to enter a plea, and was pressed to death on September 19, 1692 in an attempt to get him to do so. In this form of torture the condemned had heavy weights placed upon him (usually large stones): death, when it occurred, was by suffocation or internal injuries.
There have also been some peculiar forms of death by crushing to receive official sanction from a ruler or governing body, both involving women as the executioners. This last fact is quite odd, because throughout history the use of women to carry out executions is exceedingly rare.
The first of these methods was designed to inflict extreme humiliation, and was practiced in the 19th century by the Watusi tribe of Africa. For centuries, the Watusi had been mortal enemies with the Pygmies as they shared attached and disputed lands. By coincidence the Watusi are the tallest people on earth, with many of the men standing over seven feet tall, while the Pygmies are the shortest people on earth, with full grown men often less than 4 feet in height.
The method of death by crushing in this instance involved the extreme humiliation of captured Pygmy warriors. The prisoner would be stripped of all his weapons and clothing, bound with ropes, and then thrown into a large, stone-floored pit that was filled with waiting Watusi women. The very tall women would then proceed, as a group, to trample heavily upon the small man, crushing him to death beneath their feet. This was considered to be extremely humiliating owing to the fact that the warrior was losing his life at the hands of women, and also because he was being treated to a death fit more for an insect than a man. Many Pygmies who showed no fear in battle dreaded the possibility of such a death, indicating that the method apparently had the desired affect.
But perhaps the most bizarre form of death by crushing was put into practice by Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din of Malwa (1469-1500). (Malwa was a kingdom in northern India.) Apparently in an effort to satisfy an erotic urge toward violence, the Sultan had a very large wooden platform (approx. 20' x 20') built of two layers that could be parted, the upper layer sliding freely above its lower partner on vertical rails placed about the circumference of the platform.
The condemned would be placed on his back, on top of the lower platform directly in its center, while the upper platform was lowered on its rails, eventually coming down onto him and causing him to be under its full weight. The weight of the upper platform was insufficient to crush the condemned (est. 600 pounds), but was heavy enough to pin him firmly in place.
At this point, the Sultan would have women from his harem enter. Then, one by one, each woman would step up onto the upper platform and take her place upon it. An opening was cut in the upper platform for the condemned's head, so that he would not die quickly from a crushed skull, and also so that he would have to watch helplessly as the women gathered around him and their weight on his body grew ever heavier.
Although the Sultan's harem was comprised of 6,000 beautiful women, it is estimated that only about 150 women could have squeezed their way onto such a platform at one time. This is probably why the Sultan chose the tallest among his harem as executioners; so as to provide the most weight. One hundred and fifty tall women would weigh nearly eleven tons. This would explain reports of executions that described the two platform layers, to the accompaniment of the screams and cracking bones of the condemned, as coming together so tightly as to leave no discernable space between them.
The Sultan had drawings made of the uncrushed heads of his victims, and kept them as a treasured collection. Many depected the effect of the women's weight, showing the victims with entrails protruding from their mouths or eyeballs burst from their sockets.
It should be noted that fantasies of death, or vicarious death, by crushing are a feature of a paraphilia that is common enough to support a sub-genere of "trampling pornography." This might have been a motivation for the Sultan's actions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crushing."
Synonyms: CrushingSynonyms: devastating (adj), quelling (n), stifling (n), suppression (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destruction | Adverb: with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer. |
Pain | Shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful, frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending. |
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Crosswords: Crushing |
| English words defined with "crushing": battery, beetle, beneficiation, brisance ♦ caiman lizard, Cephalotripsy, Cestraciont, Coal breaker, compaction, constrictor, Cranioclasm, Cranioclast, crunch, crush, crush out, crushingly ♦ devastating ♦ Ecraseur, extinguish ♦ finch, Free-milling, From battery, fruit crush, fruit juice ♦ grinder, Gyrodus ♦ Lithoclast, Lithotripsy ♦ mallet, Mashy, mill, mineral dressing, mineral processing ♦ ore dressing, ore processing, Out of battery ♦ Pash, pestle, press out, put-down, Pycnodont ♦ Roller mill ♦ seed lac, squelch, squelcher, stamp, stamp battery, Stonebrearer, stub out, Swashing ♦ takedown, Testing machine ♦ Waterloo, wrinkled. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crushing": choke crushing, crushing bort, crushing cycle, crushing strength at maximum load ♦ DUST COLLECTOR, ORE CRUSHING ♦ free crushing ♦ maximum crushing strength ♦ screenings crushing, selective crushing, stage crushing ♦ tertiary crushing. (references) |
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Screenplays | Apu, if it makes you feel any better, I've learned that life is just one crushing defeat after another until you finally just wish Flanders was dead (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Yeah so if you could stop crushing her to your manly torso plate for a while what say we start the repairs (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) I know you'll find this crushing, 007, but I don't sit at home waiting for an international incident so I can come down here all dressed up just to impress James Bond (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France) Why can we not allow their voices to be heard rather than crushing them into muteness (Red Corner; writing credit: Robert King) | |
Lyrics | But I feel like crushing you (Deep Inside of You; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Crushing the Drug Traffic (1922) | |
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 | Wolf-eels, Anarrhichthys ocellatus, have powerful jaws for crushing bivalves. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Using a gasoline-powered insect vacuum, technician Brian Jones samples the number of spiders at various points in an Oklahoma wheat field. The tubular extension prevents crushing of wheat stems and enables the airflow to be maintained for efficient sampling. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Young American crushing rebellion and sedition. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | If dreams came true! The crushing breakfast table triumph which every wife yearns to enjoy ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A Visit to the West Indies--the manufacture of sugar--III. In the purging house--cutting and crushing the sugar. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Elephant crushing a tiger. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gastineau Gold Crushing Mill. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Copper. A rotary car dumper discharging copper ore at the large crushing plant of the Magna mill of the Utah Copper Company. Its plants at Magna and Arthur in Utah are treating vast quantities of the copper so vital for war production. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rock crusher crushing rock to be placed on trails on Pere Marquette recreational project. Grafton, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hamilton Watch Factory. Diamond crushing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Compacting machine crushing bottles. |
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Henri Frederic Amiel | Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Their reply would be crushing. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It remained only to complete this repulse by a crushing charge |
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Business | Brazil is second to the U.S. in this market area. France leads in presses and crushing machinery used in the manufacture of wine, cider and fruit juices. (references) | |
Economic History | Georgia | Additional prospects involve seed crushing and oil refining machinery. (references) |
Turkey | The industry has invested in modern crushing facilities and is seeking to expand capacity. (references) | |
Norway | Denofa has now completed building of their crushing plant that will have a capacity of 390,000 tons. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | There were some reports of significant visual impairment by visual display unit workers, and some reports of hearing impairment by power station and stone crushing employees. (references) |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Hope is alive tonight for millions of young families and senior citizens set free from unfair tax increases and crushing inflation. |
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| "Crushing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 62.16% of the time. "Crushing" is used about 296 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 62.16% | 184 | 22,714 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 27.03% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.14% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.68% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 296 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crushing": ad with crushing effect ♦ crushing machine ♦ crushing strength ♦ crushing strength at maximum load ♦ maximum crushing strength ♦ suffer a crushing defeat. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "crushing": ball-crushing, bone-crushing, brain-crushing, car-crushing, ear-crushing, lung-crushing, mollusc-crushing, once-crushing, rib-crushing, seed-crushing, stone-crushing, tail-crushing, waist-crushing. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crushing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkelje (breaking, delinquency, encroachment, impingement, infraction, infringement, invasion, irregularity, lap, obtrusion, offence, outrage, overlap, perambulation, squelcher, stamping, transgression, trespass, violation), shkatërrimtar (calamitous, destructive, disastrous, fatal, internecine, killing, pestilent, pestilential, shattering, slaughterous, suicidal, vandalistic), dërrmues (knockdown, knockout, overwhelming, scathing, sledgehammer). (various references) | |
Arabic | ساحق (cracking, crusher, great, landslide, massive, out and out, overpowering, overwhelming, rank, reducible, shattering, sweeping, swinging), الساحق (pulverizer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | унищожаващ, смачкване, разтрошаване, разбиване (crush, hack, milling). (various references) | |
Chinese | 击碎 (Crushed). (various references) | |
Czech | zdrcující (devastating, overwhelming), drtivý (vast), břitký (incisive, poignant, smart, trenchant). (various references) | |
Danish | sammenbrud (breakdown, break-up, collapse, crash, failure, settlement, sinking, subsidence, trouble), rulleprofilering, persning (treading), knusning (bruise, check, cracking, graded size, granulation, grind, grinding, mill, pressure vent, surface crack, surface vent, treading), knækning (grinding), hørbrydning (grinding), fortrykning, fladtrykning (flattening), brydning (aberration, coal-getting, diffraction, fragmentation, getting, grinding, refraction, stoping, winning, work), brud (bride, fiancée, fragment, lump, piece), braekning (cracking), brækning (breaking, scutching, vomiting). (various references) | |
Dutch | vergruizing (abrasion), verdrukken (suppress), verbrijzeling (fragmentation, grinding), verbrijzelen (shatter, smash), treden (pace, stalk, step, stride, tread), totale breuk door druk, profileren (profiling, to turn), persen (oppress, press, squeeze, squeeze out), kneuzen (bruise), inrollen (wrapping), gradatieverlies, gradatiefout, breken (break), brakelen. (various references) | |
Finnish | profilointi, poljenta (stamping, tramp), pohjan ruhje, mustuma, musertava (overwhelming), murskaus (treading), murskaaminen. (various references) | |
French | écrasement (crunch). (various references) | |
German | zerdrückend, erdrückend (oppressive, suffocating). (various references) | |
Greek | κοπάνισμα (beetle, grinding), έκθλιψη (elision), σύνθλιψη-επιπέδωση (flattening), σύνθλιψη (crush), σπάσιμο (breakage, breakdown, crash, fracture, rupture, smash), συντριπτικόσ (overpowering, smashing), συντριπτικός (overwhelming), σούφρωμα (crinkling, curl, shirr, thieving), θραύσις, θραύση (breach, break, breakage, rupture, snap). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כתיש" (beating, pounding), רצוץ (breaking, broken, crushed, dejected, depressed, exhausted, oppressed, oppression), רטוש (shredding, splitting, tearing to pieces), טחי " (grind, grinding), 'ריס" (coarse milling, munching, pounding), ""כא" (suppression, trampling), "מעכות, כסיס" (biting, chewing, crunching, gnawing), רסוק (mashing, pounding), כתות (beating, pounding), מוחץ (overwhelming, smashing), כתית" (beating), פרכ" (breaking, refutation), פרוך (broken, crushed), פרך (oppression), פריצ" (breach, breakthrough, cracking, disruption), מסמוס (maceration, melting, squeezing, thawing), מעיכ" (pulping, squash, squashing, squeezing), מפץ (shattering, smashing), כתוש (crushed, ground, pounded, pounding). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zúzó (cracker, pestle, pounder, shattering), megsemmisítő (overwhelming, smashing, wrecking), lesújtó (distressful, distressing, fulminatory, overwhelming, startling, woeful), összezúzás (crush, shattering, squash, stamping). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggempuran (destruction), pengganyangan (destroying of). (various references) | |
Italian | pestata (pounding), frammentazione (fragmentation), franato, frantumazione (crush), frattura trasversale, gramolatura (breaking, cramming, scutching, working), ammaccatura (bruise, bump, Dent, dint, lump, protuberance), pestamento (cracking), triturazione (fragmentation, granulating, grinding, milling, pulverisation, regrinding, scrap grinding, scrap reduction, size reduction), pigiatura (treading), schiacciamento (crush), schiacciato (flat, mashed, quashed), scotolatura, sminuzzamento (chipping), trituramento (grinding), maciullatura. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | (cracking to pieces, smashing), 摧 (cracking to pieces, smashing), 圧 , ' . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あっさい, 'きは, はさい (cracking to pieces, smashing). (various references) | |
Korean | 분쇄 (Comminuting, fracture, Pulverizing, smash, smashing). (various references) | |
Manx | traastagh (crushing as defeat). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ushingcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corte (address, build, chop, cohort, court, courtship, cutting edge, gash, hack, hackery, incision, intersection, kerf, make, nick, pen, scission, score, section, slash, swinery, tailoring), trituração (mastication, milling, pulverization), sova (birching, drubbing, dusting, grueling, gruelling, hiding, lacing, licking, paddywhack, thrashing, towelling, walloping, warming, whaling), pisa (treading), moedura (grind, milling), esmagamento (crush, squeeze), esmagador (crusher, overpowering, overwhelming, pressing), esmagado (smashed), aniquilador (thunderous). (various references) | |
Romanian | zdrobitor (overwhelming, smashing), strivitor, nimicitor (destructive, scathing, shattering). (various references) | |
Russian | сокрушительный (knock down, shattering, slashing, sledgehammer, smashing), смятие, раздавливание (crush), дробление (breaking, fragmentation, granulation, milling, treatment), дробить сокрушительный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veliki (big, bulky, great, knar, large, large scale, man-sized, resounding), težak (bulky, difficile, difficult, formidable, grave, hard, heavy, hefty, kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumbering, ponderous, punishing, rough, swingeing, trying, uneasy, weighty), porazan (calamitous, disastrous, overpowering, overwhelming, withering). (various references) | |
Spanish | aplastante (crusher, knockout, overwhelming, sharp, shattering, smashing). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillplattning (flattening), krossprofilering, krossning (graded size, granulation, rolling, treading), krossande (crush), förkrossande (heartbreaking), dräpande (scathing, telling), brott (breach, breaking, crime, fracture, leak, offence, offense, rupture, violation). (various references) | |
Turkish | mahvedici (fatal), ezme (crush, grinding, mash, mashing, paste, pate, pomace, pulverization, puree, scrunch, spoon meat), ezici (damning, devastating, masher, oppressive, overwhelming, sweeping). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нищівний (destructive, scathing, sledge hammer, smashing), знищувальний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l m tan nát, l m liểng xiểng. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | contricio. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 16, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de qeoV thV eirhnhV suntriyei ton satanan upo touV podaV umwn en tacei h cariV tou kuriou hmwn ihsou cristou meq umwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Deus autem pacis conteret Satanan sub pedibus vestris velociter gratia Domini nostri Iesu Christi vobiscum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Friðes God sceal Satanam hraðe brecan under eowrum fotum.Ures Drihtnes Iesu giefu sie mid eow. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And God of pees tredde Sathanas vndur youre feet swiftli. The grace of oure Lord Jhesu Crist be with you. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The God of peace treade Satan vnder youre fete shortly. The grace of oure Lorde Iesu Christ be with you. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the God of peace will soon bruise Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the God of peace will be crushing Satan under your feet before long. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 16, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa dili madugay ang Dios sa kalinaw magadugmok kang Satanas diha sa ubos sa inyong mga tiil. Ang grasya sa atong Ginoong Jesu-Cristo magauban kaninyo. |
| Croatian | Bog mira satrt æe ubrzo Sotonu pod vašim nogama. Milost Gospodina Isusa s vama! |
| Danish | Men Fredens Gud skal hastelig knuse Satan under eders Fødder. Vore Herres Jesu Kristi Nåde være med eder! |
| Dutch | En de God des vredes zal den satan haast onder uw voeten verpletteren. De genade van onzen Heere Jezus Christus zij met ulieden. Amen. |
| Finnish | Ja rauhan Jumala on pian musertava saatanan teidän jalkojenne alle. Herramme Jeesuksen armo olkoon teidän kanssanne. |
| French | Le Dieu de paix écrasera bientôt Satan sous vos pieds. Que la grâce de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ soit avec vous! |
| German | Aber der Gott des Friedens zertrete den Satan unter eure Füße in kurzem. Die Gnade unsers HERRN Jesu Christi sei mit euch! |
| Haitian Creole | Anvan lontan, Bondye ki bay kè poze a gen pou kraze Satan anba pye nou. Se pou benediksyon Jezi, Seyè nou an, toujou la avèk nou. |
| Hungarian | A békességnek Istene megrontja a Sátánt a ti lábaitok alatt hamar. A mi Urunk Jézus Krisztus kegyelme veletek. Ámen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Allah yang memberi sejahtera kepada manusia, akan segera menempatkan Iblis di bawah kekuasaanmu dan menghancurkannya. Semoga Saudara-saudara selalu diberkati oleh Yesus Kristus Tuhan kita! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Allah, yang pohon sejahtera itu, akan meremukkan Iblis itu dengan segeranya di bawah tapak kakimu. Maka anugerah Tuhan kita Yesus adalah kiranya beserta dengan kamu! |
| Latvian | Bet miera Dievs lai satriec sâtanu visâ drîzumâ zem jûsu kâjâm! Mûsu Kunga Jçzus Kristus þçlastîba lai ir ar jums! |
| Maori | Na tera te Atua o te rangimarie e hohoro te kuru i a Hatana ki raro i o koutou waewae. Kia tau ki a koutou te aroha noa o to tatou Ariki, o Ihu Karaiti. |
| Norwegian | Men fredens Gud skal i hast knuse Satan under eders føtter. Vår Herre Jesu Kristi nåde være med eder! |
| Portuguese | E o Deus de paz em breve esmagará a Satanás debaixo dos vossos pés. A graça de nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo seja convosco. |
| Rumanian | Dumnezeul pqcii va zdrobi kn curknd pe Satana supt picioarele voastre. Harul Domnului nostru Isus Hristos sq fie cu voi! Amin. |
| Shuar | Yus tuke shiir pujustinian amawa nu ti Wárik uunt iwianchin nupetturmaktatui. Tura ii Uuntri Jesukrístu shiir yainmakarti. |
| Spanish | Y el Dios de paz aplastará en breve a Satanás debajo de vuestros pies. La gracia de nuestro Señor Jesús sea con vosotros. |
| Swahili | Naye Mungu aliye chanzo cha amani hatakawia kumponda Shetani chini ya miguu yenu. Neema ya Bwana wetu Yesu Kristo iwe nanyi. |
| Swedish | Och fridens Gud skall snart låta Satan bliva krossad under edra fötter. Vår Herres, Jesu Kristi, nåd vare med eder. |
| Uma | Mekakae-a hi Alata'ala to mpowai' -ta kalompea' tuwu' bona haliu nadagi pai' nakero kuasa Magau' Anudaa' hi rala katuwu' -ni. Kabula rala-na Pue' -ta Pue' Yesus Kristus rata hi koi' ompi'. Amin! |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crushing": crushingly. (additional references) | |
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"Crushing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crashings, creching, crshing, crushings, crushion, crusing, cruzing, Cushings, Trushin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crushing" (pronounced kru"shing) |
| 5 | -r u" sh i ng | brushing, rushing. |
| 4 | -u" sh i ng | blushing, flushing, gushing. |
| 3 | -sh i ng | anguishing, accomplishing, abolishing, admonishing, ambushing, astonishing, banishing, bashing, brainwashing, brandishing, cashing, clashing, crashing, dashing, demolishing, diminishing, dishing, distinguishing, embellishing, establishing, extinguishing, finishing, fishing, flashing, flourishing, furbishing, furnishing, gnashing, hashing, languishing, lashing, lavishing, meshing, nourishing, onrushing, overfishing, photofinishing, polishing, publishing, punishing, pushing, quashing, ravishing, reestablishing, refinishing, refreshing, refurbishing, rehashing, relinquishing, relishing, replenishing, skirmishing, slashing, sloshing, smashing, splashing, squashing, stashing, tarnishing, thrashing, trashing, unleashing, vanishing, washing, wishing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ruchings. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cursing, ruching, rushing, urchins. | |
-2 letters: churns, curing, grinch, incurs, inrush, unrigs, urchin. | |
-3 letters: chins, chugs, churn, crush, cuing, cuish, curns, girns, girsh, grins, gursh, incur, incus, nighs, rings, ruing, ruins, rungs, runic, shrug, suing, unrig, using. | |
-4 letters: chin, chis, chug, cigs, cris, crus, curn, curs, ghis, gins, girn, gnus, grin, guns, gush, hins, hisn. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: chorusing, churnings. | |
+2 letters: chorussing, churchings, crushingly, purchasing, scrunching. | |
+3 letters: chirurgeons, cornhusking, grouchiness, huckstering, scouthering, sepulchring, surcharging. | |
+4 letters: churchgoings, cornhuskings, haircuttings, repurchasing, rescheduling, roughcasting, sepulchering, shortcutting, undischarged. | |
+5 letters: clearinghouse, grouchinesses, nightclubbers, outstretching, prepurchasing, prescheduling, rockhoundings, supercharging. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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