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Collocations for crush - noun

ADJECTIVE

big, huge, major (esp. AmE)
little, small
silly, stupid
childhood, schoolgirl, teenage
secret

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VERB + crush

have
develop, get

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PREPOSITION

crush on
She had a huge crush on one of her teachers.

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Collocations for crush - verb

ADVERB

slightly
almost, nearly
finely
Crush the garlic finely before adding.
underfoot
insects that had been crushed underfoot

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PREPOSITION

against
She was crushed against the wall.
beneath, under
He was crushed beneath a bus.
between
She was crushed between two cars.

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PHRASES

be crushed, get crushed
crush sb to death

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Crush is used with these nouns as the object:
army, competition, dissent, dream, ego, garlic, grape, hope, insurrection, opposition, pelvis, rebellion, resistance, revolt, revolution, rib, rising, skull, strike, uprising

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