crush vs hatch

crush

verb
  • To overcome completely; to subdue totally. 

  • 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. 

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. 

hatch

verb
  • To devise. 

  • To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch). 

  • To emerge from an egg. 

  • To break open when a young animal emerges from it. 

  • To close with a hatch or hatches. 

  • To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch. 

noun
  • A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time. 

  • A trapdoor. 

  • An opening into, or in search of, a mine. 

  • The act of hatching. 

  • A gullet. 

  • A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper). 

  • A floodgate; a sluice gate. 

  • An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine 

  • A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling. 

  • Development; disclosure; discovery. 

  • A bedstead. 

  • A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance. 

  • A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. 

  • An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through. 

  • The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity. 

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