crush vs mash

crush

verb
  • To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding. 

  • To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass. 

  • To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force. 

  • To feel infatuation or unrequited love. 

  • To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to. 

  • To overwhelm by pressure or weight. 

  • To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display. 

  • To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.). 

  • To oppress or grievously burden. 

  • To overcome completely; to subdue totally. 

noun
  • A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling. 

  • The human object of such infatuation or affection. 

  • A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure. 

  • The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place. 

  • A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. 

  • A group or gang. 

  • A crowd control barrier. 

  • The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display. 

  • A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing. 

  • A violent crowding. 

  • A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit. 

  • Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd. 

  • An infatuation with somebody one is not dating. 

mash

verb
  • To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure 

  • To press. 

  • To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly. 

  • To press down hard (on). 

  • To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances. 

  • To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea). 

  • In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. 

noun
  • A gun. 

  • Mashed potatoes. 

  • A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals. 

  • Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort. 

  • A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. 

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