Synonyms of the word

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

abase

• v. (transitive, archaic) To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down.
• v. (transitive) To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

bruise

• v. (transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such…
• v. (transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
• v. (intransitive) Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
• v. (intransitive) To become bruised.
• v. (intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
• n. (medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that…
• n. A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.

chagrin

• n. Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or…
• n. A type of leather or skin with a rough surface.
• v. (transitive) To bother or vex; to mortify.
• v. (intransitive) To be vexed or annoyed.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

compaction

• n. The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.

compressing

• v. present participle of compress.

compression

• n. An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
• n. (automotive) The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
• n. (computing) The process by which data is compressed.
• n. (music) The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
• n. (astronomy) The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.

contuse

• v. (transitive) To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.

crowd

• v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
• v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
• v. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
• v. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together.
• v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
• v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
• v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
• v. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
• n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
• n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
• n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
• n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
• n. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
• n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

crunch

• v. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
• v. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
• v. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations).
• v. To grind or press with violence and noise.
• v. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
• v. (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by…
• n. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
• n. A critical moment or event.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains…

defeat

• v. (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
• v. (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
• v. (transitive) To nullify.
• n. The act of defeating or being defeated.

demolish

• v. To destroy; to destruct.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To utterly defeat (as in a theory, belief or opponent).

fragment

• n. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
• n. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
• n. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
• v. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

fragmentise

• v. Alternative form of fragmentize.

fragmentize

• v. (transitive) To break, cut, or otherwise separate (something) into fragments.
• v. (intransitive) To fall into or become separated into fragments.

humble

• adj. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
• adj. Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
• v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
• v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of;…
• adj. hornless.

humiliate

• v. (transitive) To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

infatuation

• n. An unreasoning love for or sexual attraction to.
• n. (obsolete) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.

jam

• n. A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used…
• n. (countable) A difficult situation.
• n. (countable) Blockage, congestion.
• n. (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
• n. (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
• n. (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
• n. (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
• n. (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
• n. (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
• n. (Britain, slang) luck.
• n. (slang) sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
• v. To get something stuck in a confined space.
• v. To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
• v. To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
• v. To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
• v. (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
• v. (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
• v. To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
• v. (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
• v. (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some joint endeavour; stand up, chicken out, jam out.
• n. (dated) A kind of frock for children.
• n. (mining) Alternative form of jamb.

leather

• n. A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
• n. A piece of the above used for polishing.
• n. (colloquial) A cricket ball or football.
• n. (plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
• n. (baseball) A good defensive play.
• n. (dated, humorous) The skin.
• adj. Made of leather.
• adj. Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially…
• v. To cover with leather.
• v. To strike forcefully.
• v. To beat with a leather belt or strap.

love

• n. (uncountable) Strong affection.
• n. (countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
• n. (colloquial, Britain) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
• n. (euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
• n. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members,…
• n. (obsolete) A thin silk material.
• n. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
• v. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To need, thrive on.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
• v. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
• v. (transitive) To lust for.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
• v. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
• n. (racquet sports) Zero, no score.

mash

• n. (obsolete) A mesh.
• n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
• n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
• n. Mashed potatoes.
• n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
• n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
• v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
• v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
• v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
• v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
• n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
• n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
• n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

mortify

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
• v. (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
• v. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
• v. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
• v. (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
• v. (Scotland, law, historical) To grant in mortmain.

oppress

• v. (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
• v. (transitive) To keep down by force.
• v. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy.

overcome

• v. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To win (a battle).
• v. (intransitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
• v. (transitive, usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
• v. To come or pass over; to spread over.
• v. To overflow; to surcharge.

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

smash

• n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic accident.
• n. (colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
• n. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
• v. To break (something brittle) violently.
• v. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
• v. To hit extremely hard.
• v. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success.
• v. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

squash

• n. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
• n. (Britain) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
• n. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
• n. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
• n. (obsolete, countable, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
• v. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
• v. (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
• v. to be hit by the vegetable described below.
• n. (countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
• n. Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
• n. The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
• n. (obsolete, zoo, countable) Muskrat.

squeeze

• v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
• v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
• n. A close or tight fit.
• n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
• n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
• n. (slang) A romantic partner.
• n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
• n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
• n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
• n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
• n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
• n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
• n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

squelch

• v. (transitive, US) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
• v. (transitive, radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions…
• v. (intransitive, Britain) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
• v. (intransitive, Britain) to walk or step through a substance such as mud.
• n. A squelching sound.
• n. (radio technology) suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting…

suppress

• v. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
• v. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
• v. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
• v. To prevent publication.
• v. To stop a flow or stream.
• v. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
• v. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
• v. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.