Synonyms for crushing
crush·ing

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1. suppression, crushing, quelling, stiflingadjective

   forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

   "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"

   Synonyms:
   stifling, curtailment, suppression, quelling, inhibition

   Antonyms:
   constructive

2. crushing, devastatingadjective

   physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

   "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"

   Synonyms:
   devastating, withering, annihilative, annihilating

   Antonyms:
   constructive

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1. crushingadjective

   Synonyms:
   overwhelming

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1. List of paraphrases for "crushing":

   grinding, crush, shredding, milling, crash, overwhelming, pulping, crushers

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1. Darcy Meys:

   They are crushing his spirit, they are stifling his creativity.

2. Narendra Modi:

   At a time when our army is engaged in crushing terrorism, inside the country and outside, there are some people within the country who are trying to break their morale, which is cheering our enemy.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   We can either do that directly or through tax credits. And, kind of figuring out whether she could do that through executive action, or she would need to do that through tax credits working with Congress. She thinks either of those will help solve the challenge of kind of the crushing costs that still exist for too many people who even are part of the Affordable Care Act.

4. Don McCullin:

   It was a crushing defeat for me not to go the Falklands War, in effect, I had more battleground experience than any soldier that went there.

5. Harmony Allen:

   This was not a case of he-said, she-said. There was hard evidence. There were witnesses, i fought so hard to get the justice to have him put away for what he did. To have that ripped away after finally getting it is so hurtful and crushing and it just questions my belief in the justice system.