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crushlike

adj

Etymology

From crush + -like.

  1. derived from *kreustaną✻ — “to crush, grind, strike, smash”
  2. derived from *krustijan✻ — “to crush, squeeze, squash”
  3. derived from *crusciō✻ — “to crush”
  4. derived from croissir — “to crush”
  5. derived from cruschen — “to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”
  6. suffixed as crushlike — “crush + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a crush (infatuation).

    • She had a white-flecked black pageboy and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes with which she was staring at Enid unabashedly, in the way of someone very smart or very stupid. Such a crushlike intensity of looking suggested hunger.

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