“crush” in Latin

compressio: contusio. Sometimes pulsus, ictus, percussio, collisus, collisio, attritus may serve.

A dense crowd, turba confertissima.

TR., contundere (general term, both PROP., [as, caput; colla, pectus; oleas; florem aratro, Catullus], and figuratively, aliquem, alicujus animum, audaciam, opes, etc.): elidere (PROP.,” to strike or thrust out, or violently :” talos, caput saxo): illidere (to strike into; injure by a crushing blow: e.g., serpens illisa, Cic.): premere (to press): comprimere (to press together): deprimere: opprimere (crush down: PROP., and figuratively, ): confringere (to beat to pieces): comminuere (to break or beat into bits): conculcare (to crush by treading on it): perfringere (to break thoroughly): diminuere (to reduce to small pieces or atoms; e.g., anybody’s head, or brains, caput, cerebrum): deterere (to reduce by rubbing, to bruise; e.g., frumenta): pinsere (to pound): conterere: obterere (to reduce to atoms by rubbing, to pulverize): in pulverem redigere or conterere (to reduce to dust, to pulverize - ☞ but not pulverare): oblidere (to mangle, to jam): to crush grapes, torculare (late); prelo premere; calcare (Col. 12, 39, 2): lo crush olives, oleas contundere: to crush in a mortar, contundere in pila (e.g., thymum): to crush anything with a weight, aliquid elidere pondere (Plin., draconem).

To be crushed, frangi; contundi; elidi [SYN. above.] to be crushed between rocks, contundi ac debilitari inter saxa rupesque (Liv.): to have been nearly crushed by the fall of a tree, prope funeratum esse ictu arboris (Hor.): to be crushed by the fall of a room, ruina conclavis opprimi (Cic.).

FIG., contundere (Vid: above): affligere (to dash to the ground, opposed to erigere): opprimere (to quell; e.g., a commotion, tumultum: to oppress, destroy violently, libertatem; ☞ Cic., Lael., 4, 78: ut exstinctae potius amicitiae, quam oppressae esse videantur): comprimere (to stop or quell by main force; e.g., tumultum, seditionem): obruere (to cover over with a mass that crushes or overwhelms one): obtundere (to beat on anything and thus deprive it of its power; e.g., to dull the mental powers, mentem, ingenia). To crush anybody’s pride, superbiam alicujus retundere (Phaedrus, 4, 23, 21): a manly character is not to be crushed by pain, viri non est debilitari dolore, frangi, succumbere: to be crushed (e.g., under deep affliction), aegritudine afflictum debilitatumque esse; by a burden, onere opprimi, deprimi: to be crushed by the magnitude of debts, an affair, etc., obrui aere alieno, negotii magnitudine: to be almost crushed by one’s own greatness, magnitudine sua laborare: by the power of fate, impetum fortunae superare non posse: to crush anybody, aliquem obruere (Propertius, Deus me obruit): aliquem or alicujus opes contundere (crush his power): aliquem conterere or contemptim conterere (Plaut.): aliquem frangere (break his spirit; opposed to erigere): aliquem deprimere (sink him or his scale; opposed to extollere): tyrannica crudelitate importune vexare (of a tyrant; e.g., speaking of a nation; Vid: Justin, 42, 1, 3): tyrannum esse in aliquem; superbe crudeliterque tractare aliquem (of a single individual; [Vid: Cic., Phil., 13, 8, 17: Justin, 42, 1, 3): to crush anybody’s hopes, alicujus spem exstinguere, incidere or infringere: anybody’s power, alicujus opes contundere; alicujus potentiam exstinguere: to crush the enemy, hostes profligare.

INTR., densari; condensari; spissari; conspissari; concrescere. compressione coactum esse (Vitrvius). CRUST, s. crusta (any natural rind or coating; e.g., of bread, a wound, etc.). To cover with a crust, crustare: crusta obducere: covered with a crust, crustatus: crustosus: the crust of bread, crusta panis. A crust (= morsel) of bread, frustum (diminutive, frustulum). I have not a crust of bread to eat, Vid: CRUMB.