English words for 'That crushes; overwhelming.'
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verb
adj
- Completely overwhelming.
- Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)
- Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
- ignoring distinctions
- taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination
noun
verb
noun
- An overwhelming blow.
- (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- a blow that knocks the opponent off their feet
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verb
adj
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verb
verb
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adv
adj
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- Causing death; lethal.
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
adj
verb
- overwhelm by using great force
- proceed with great force
- crush with a steamroller as if to level
- bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
- make level or flat with a steamroller
- (transitive) To level a road using a steamroller.
- (transitive, figurative) To proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force.
noun
- vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
- a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
- (slang) A pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end.
- (historical) A steam-powered heavy road roller.
- (by extension, informal) Any heavy road roller.
- (figurative) Any seemingly irresistible force.
verb
- (by extension) To overwhelm.
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To place in the ground.
- (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
- (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
- (sports) To score (a goal).
- place in a grave or tomb
- embed deeply
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- cover from sight
- place in the earth and cover with soil
noun
noun
- a crushing remark
- an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise
- (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
- (countable) A squelching sound.
- (countable, music) A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.
verb
- suppress or crush completely
- walk through mud or mire
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- make a sucking sound
- (intransitive, British) To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
- (transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
- (intransitive, British) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
- (transitive, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
noun
- a crushing remark
- (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position
- (slang) A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.
- Enforced removal of material from a website, etc.
- (martial arts) A taking down: an act of bringing one's opponent to the ground by grabbing one or both legs and applying a rearward bending moment.
adj
- Intense; extremely intense.
- Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
- Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
- In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
- Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
- Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
- showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
- (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
- desperately determined
- arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
adv
noun
adj
- Enormously large.
- (offensive, derogatory) Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.)
- Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
- Freakish or grotesque.
- Hideous or frightful.
- distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
- shockingly brutal or cruel
- abnormally large
adj
noun
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- A great flood or rain.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount
verb
verb
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- simple past of overlie
- (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
- kill by lying on
- put something on top of something else
noun
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- A covering over something else.
- protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
adv
noun
adj
verb
- be fatally overwhelmed
- cease opposition; stop fighting
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- be willing to concede
- consent reluctantly
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- be the cause or source of
- bring in
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- give in, as to influence or pressure
- give or supply
- end resistance, as under pressure or force
- (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- (transitive or intransitive, especially US) To give way so as to allow another to pass first.
- (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- To produce as return from an investment.
- (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- (computing, intransitive) Of a running process, to give control back to the operating system so that other processes can be allowed to run.
- (intransitive) To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
- To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
- (transitive or intransitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish.
noun
- an amount of a product
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- production of a certain amount
- A product.
- (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- (engineering, material science) yield strength of a material.
- (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
- (forestry, fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
- The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- (programming) The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
- (chemistry) The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
- (hydrology) The volume of water escaping from a spring.
- (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
noun
- An overwhelming blow.
- (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- a blow that knocks the opponent off their feet
adj
verb
noun
- a crushing remark
- an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise
- (radio technology) The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
- (countable) A squelching sound.
- (countable, music) A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.
verb
- suppress or crush completely
- walk through mud or mire
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- make a sucking sound
- (intransitive, British) To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
- (transitive, US) To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
- (intransitive, British) To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
- (transitive, radio technology) To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
noun
- a crushing remark
- (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position
- (slang) A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.
- Enforced removal of material from a website, etc.
- (martial arts) A taking down: an act of bringing one's opponent to the ground by grabbing one or both legs and applying a rearward bending moment.
noun
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- A great flood or rain.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- overwhelm by using great force
- proceed with great force
- crush with a steamroller as if to level
- bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure
- make level or flat with a steamroller
- (transitive) To level a road using a steamroller.
- (transitive, figurative) To proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force.
noun
- vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements
- a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
- (slang) A pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end.
- (historical) A steam-powered heavy road roller.
- (by extension, informal) Any heavy road roller.
- (figurative) Any seemingly irresistible force.
verb
- (by extension) To overwhelm.
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To place in the ground.
- (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
- (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
- (sports) To score (a goal).
- place in a grave or tomb
- embed deeply
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- cover from sight
- place in the earth and cover with soil
noun
verb
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- simple past of overlie
- (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
- (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
- kill by lying on
- put something on top of something else
noun
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
- (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
- A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
- (Scotland) A cravat.
- (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
- A covering over something else.
- protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior
- a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface
verb
- be fatally overwhelmed
- cease opposition; stop fighting
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- be willing to concede
- consent reluctantly
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- be the cause or source of
- bring in
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- give in, as to influence or pressure
- give or supply
- end resistance, as under pressure or force
- (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
- (transitive or intransitive, especially US) To give way so as to allow another to pass first.
- (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- (mathematics) To produce as a result.
- To produce as return from an investment.
- (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- (computing, intransitive) Of a running process, to give control back to the operating system so that other processes can be allowed to run.
- (intransitive) To give way under force; to succumb to a force.
- To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
- (transitive or intransitive) To give as demanded; to relinquish.
noun
- an amount of a product
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- production of a certain amount
- A product.
- (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.
- (engineering, material science) yield strength of a material.
- (finance) Profit earned from an investment; return on investment.
- (forestry, fishery) The harvestable population growth of an ecosystem.
- The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuclear weapon, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent.
- (programming) The situation where a thread relinquishes the processor to allow other threads to execute.
- (chemistry) The amount of product obtained in a chemical reaction.
- (hydrology) The volume of water escaping from a spring.
- (agriculture) Measurement of the amount of a crop harvested, or animal products such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land.
adv
adj
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- Causing death; lethal.
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
adv
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Completely overwhelming.
- Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)
- Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
- ignoring distinctions
- taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- An overwhelming blow.
- (nautical) The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
- (soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
- An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
- (genetics) The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
- A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
- (genetics) A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
- (film, television) A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
- a blow that knocks the opponent off their feet
adj
verb
adj
- Intense; extremely intense.
- Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
- Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
- In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
- Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
- Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
- showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
- (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
- desperately determined
- arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
adv
noun
adj
- Enormously large.
- (offensive, derogatory) Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.)
- Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
- Freakish or grotesque.
- Hideous or frightful.
- distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
- shockingly brutal or cruel
- abnormally large