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Is crush a Scrabble word?

Yes, crush is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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Definition

noun (English)

1. (slang) A group or gang.Examples: "Then there was another set who called themselves the "Ragged Thirteen"; and the account says "they looked it." And, like most diggers, this "crush," to quote my authority, could handle the cards a bit."countableslanguncountable

2. (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.Examples: "I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago."; "He took his crush out for dinner."; "And I needed to get my schoolgirl crush under control. There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend."countableinformaluncountable

3. (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.Examples: "It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush."broadlycountableinformaluncountable

4. (dated) A party or festive function.Examples: "Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's."countabledateduncountable

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

6. (television, uncountable) 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.Examples: "black crush; white crush"uncountable

verb (English)

1. (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.Examples: "After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections"; "We believe the invasion has reached its peak. The task remaining is to crush it. Our men are confident, the United Nations command is confident, that it will be crushed."; "A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn."Synonyms: overtakefiguratively

2. (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).Examples: "They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!"colloquialfiguratively

3. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.Examples: "an eggshell crushes easily"intransitive

4. (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.Examples: "She's crushing on him."; "Then walked in / The girl I'm crushin' / And the kid spilled juice / On my Mom's new cushion"; "... I could just let loose and be myself no holding back you know we just where to young kids in love, lust, crushing whatever you wanted to call it but we where living it up having fun when we where together the rest of the world didn't exist ..."intransitivetransitive

5. (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.Examples: "He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens)."; "They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered."

6. (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.Examples: "My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered."transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "crush"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "crush"?

Scrabble
10 points
C3
R1
U1
S1
H4
Words With Friends
11 points
C4
R1
U2
S1
H3

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