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verpletteren — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • crush verb To squeeze or press something so hard that its shape or structure is destroyed.
  • smash noun The loud sound of a violent collision or impact.
  • trounce verb To beat severely; to thrash.

Senses

verpletteren is used for these senses in English:

  • crush To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
  • crush To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
  • crush (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
  • smash (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
  • trounce (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.

crush — full definition

  1. verb To squeeze or press something so hard that its shape or structure is destroyed.
  2. verb To defeat someone or something completely and forcefully.
  3. noun A strong but usually short-lived romantic infatuation, or the person it is directed at.
  4. noun A dense, uncomfortable crowd of people.

smash — full definition

  1. noun The loud sound of a violent collision or impact.
  2. noun Something enormously successful and popular.
  3. verb To break something violently into pieces.
  4. verb To defeat someone overwhelmingly.

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