crush vs pack

crush

noun
  • A group or gang. 

  • 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 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. 

verb
  • 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 reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding. 

  • 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. 

pack

noun
  • A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang. 

  • A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously. 

  • The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum. 

  • A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack 

  • A multitude. 

  • A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together. 

  • A full set of playing cards 

  • A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. 

  • An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment. 

  • The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity. 

  • A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective. 

  • A shook of cask staves. 

  • A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. 

  • The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game. 

  • A flock of knots. 

  • A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale. 

  • A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker. 

  • A group of Cub Scouts. 

  • A loose, lewd, or worthless person. 

verb
  • To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off. 

  • To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside. 

  • to load; to encumber. 

  • To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots. 

  • To depart in haste; – generally with off or away. 

  • To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person. 

  • To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission. 

  • To load with a pack 

  • To block a shot, especially in basketball. 

  • To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine. 

  • To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals). 

  • To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into. 

  • To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum. 

  • To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals. 

  • To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result. 

  • To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage 

  • To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack 

  • To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. 

  • To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation. 

  • To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation. 

  • To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. 

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