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Array and Crush

noun

  • An orderly arrangement.
    • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
  • An impressive display.
    • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
  • Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

  • Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
    • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.

noun

verb

  • Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority.
    • usage: "The government oppresses political activists"
  • To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition.
    • usage: "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
  • Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.
    • usage: "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
  • Break into small pieces.
    • usage: "The car crushed the toy"
  • Humiliate or depress completely.
    • usage: "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
  • Crush or bruise.
    • usage: "jam a toe"
  • Make ineffective.
    • usage: "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
  • Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure.
    • usage: "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"