1. To press between opposing bodies so as to break or injure.
2. To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.
3. To put down; subdue: crushed the rebellion.
4. To overwhelm or oppress severely: spirits that had been crushed by rejection and failure.
5. To crumple or rumple: crushed the freshly ironed shirt.
6. To hug, especially with great force.
7. To press upon, shove, or crowd.
8. To extract or obtain by pressing or squeezing: crush juice from a grape.

1. To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder.
2. To take as spoils.

1. The act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked; destruction.
2. Accidental destruction of a ship; a shipwreck.
3.
i. The stranded hulk of a severely damaged ship.
ii. Fragments of a ship or its cargo cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck; wreckage.
4. The remains of something that has been wrecked or ruined.
5. Something shattered or dilapidated.
6. A person who is physically or mentally broken down or worn out.

1. To beat, squeeze, or press into a pulp or a flattened mass; crush.
2. To put down or suppress; quash: squash a revolt.
3. To silence or fluster, as with crushing words: squash a heckler.

5. A crushing or grinding.

1. To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; pillage: plunder a village.
2. To seize wrongfully or by force; steal: plundered the supplies.

1. To sack; plunder.
2. To deprive of something valuable by force; rob: a region despoiled of its scenic beauty by unchecked development.

1. To search or examine thoroughly.
2. To search carefully for plunder; pillage.

1. To bring heavy destruction on; devastate: A tornado ravaged the town.
2. To pillage; sack: Enemy soldiers ravaged the village.

To drive out; to expel.

1. To search with intent to steal.
2. To ransack or plunder; pillage.
3. To rob: rifle a safe.