aplastar — 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.
- murder noun The crime of deliberately killing another person.
- quash verb To officially cancel or reject a legal decision, charge, or order.
- smash noun The loud sound of a violent collision or impact.
- squash noun A racquet sport played in a walled court with a small rubber ball.
- squelch verb To suppress or put a stop to something firmly, often suddenly.
- trounce verb To beat severely; to thrash.
Senses
aplastar is used for these senses in English:
- crack down (idiomatic, often with 'on') To take harsh action (against), as when enforcing a law more stringently than before.
- 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.
- murder (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
- quash To defeat decisively, to suppress.
- score off (transitive, inseparable, idiomatic, slang) To defeat (especially in an argument), get the better of, achieve a success over, gain an advantage or win points over, make a point to the detriment or at the expense of, make appear foolish. Sometimes with particle on (someone).
- smash (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
crush — full definition
- verb To squeeze or press something so hard that its shape or structure is destroyed.
- verb To defeat someone or something completely and forcefully.
- noun A strong but usually short-lived romantic infatuation, or the person it is directed at.
- noun A dense, uncomfortable crowd of people.
murder — full definition
- noun The crime of deliberately killing another person.
- verb To deliberately and unlawfully kill someone.
- noun The collective noun for a group of crows.
- verb To do something very badly, or to defeat someone completely (informal).