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crushingly — [[t]krʌ̱ʃɪŋli[/t]] ADV GRADED: ADV adj (emphasis) You can use crushingly to emphasize the degree of a negative quality. ...a collection of crushingly bad jokes... The band s approach tends to be crushingly tedious. Syn: extremely … English dictionary
crushingly — adverb in a crushing manner the team was crushingly defeated • Derived from adjective: ↑crushing … Useful english dictionary
crushingly — adverb see crush I … New Collegiate Dictionary
crushingly — crush·ing·ly … English syllables
crushing — crush|ing [ˈkrʌʃıŋ] adj [usually before noun] 1.) very hard to deal with, and making you lose hope and confidence ▪ The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat . ▪ Failing his final exams was a crushing blow (=made him lose hope and… … Dictionary of contemporary English
crushing — adjective 1 very hard to deal with, and making you lose hope and confidence: the crushing burden of debt | crushing blow (=something that makes you lose hope and confidence): Failing his final exams was a crushing blow. | crushing defeat: his… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
crush — I. verb Etymology: Middle English crusshen, from Anglo French croissir, croistre, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Low German krossen to crush Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. a. to squeeze or force by pressure so as to alter or destroy… … New Collegiate Dictionary
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