Love vs. Crush

Lovenoun

(uncountable) Strong affection.

Lovenoun

A profound and caring affection towards someone.

Lovenoun

Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.

Lovenoun

A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.

Lovenoun

A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.

Lovenoun

(countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.

Lovenoun

A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

Lovenoun

A thing, activity, etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.

Lovenoun

(euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.

Lovenoun

(euphemistic) Sexual activity.

Lovenoun

An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.

Lovenoun

Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.

Lovenoun

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Lovenoun

(obsolete) A thin silk material.

Lovenoun

A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba''.

Lovenoun

(racquet sports) Zero, no score.

Loveverb

To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

Loveverb

(transitive) To need, thrive on.

Loveverb

To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

Loveverb

To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

Loveverb

(transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.

Loveverb

(transitive) To lust for.

Loveverb

To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.)

Loveverb

To praise; commend.

Loveverb

To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

Lovenoun

A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.

Lovenoun

Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.

Lovenoun

Courtship; - chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.

Lovenoun

Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; - opposed to hate; often with of and an object.

Lovenoun

Due gratitude and reverence to God.

Lovenoun

The object of affection; - often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading.

Lovenoun

Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.

Lovenoun

A thin silk stuff.

Lovenoun

A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis Vitalba).

Lovenoun

Nothing; no points scored on one side; - used in counting score at tennis, etc.

Lovenoun

Sexual intercourse; - a euphemism.

Loveverb

To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.

Loveverb

To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.

Loveverb

To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.

Loveverb

To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

Lovenoun

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection;

Lovenoun

any object of warm affection or devotion;

Lovenoun

a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

Lovenoun

a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction;

Lovenoun

a score of zero in tennis or squash;

Lovenoun

sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people;

Loveverb

have a great affection or liking for;

Loveverb

get pleasure from;

Loveverb

be enamored or in love with;

Loveverb

have sexual intercourse with;

Love

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food.

Crushnoun

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

Crushnoun

Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.

Crushnoun

A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

Crushnoun

A violent crowding.

Crushnoun

A crowd control barrier.

Crushnoun

An infatuation or affection for someone you are not dating.

Crushnoun

The human object of such infatuation or affection.

Crushnoun

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

Crushnoun

(dated) A party or festive function.

Crushnoun

(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes place in.

Crushverb

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

Crushverb

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding

Crushverb

(figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

Crushverb

To oppress or grievously burden.

Crushverb

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

Crushverb

(intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force

Crushverb

(intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

Crushverb

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.

Crushverb

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

Crushverb

To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

Crushverb

To oppress or burden grievously.

Crushverb

To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

Crushverb

to subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch.

Crushverb

To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

Crushnoun

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

Crushnoun

Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a reception.

Crushnoun

leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

Crushnoun

a dense crowd of people

Crushnoun

temporary love of an adolescent

Crushnoun

the act of crushing

Crushverb

come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority;

Crushverb

to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;

Crushverb

come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;

Crushverb

break into small pieces;

Crushverb

humiliate or depress completely;

Crushverb

crush or bruise;

Crushverb

make ineffective;

Crushverb

become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure;