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all-becrushing

all-becrushing adjective: crushing all.

Adjective

all-becrushing (comparative more all-becrushing, superlative most all-becrushing)

  1. crushing all
    • the striking but untranslatable epithet, which the celebrated Mendelssohn applied to the great founder of the Critical Philosophy "Der alleszermalmende Kant," that is, the all-becrushing, or rather the all-to-nothing-crushing Kant.1817, S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
    • providing its author – unlike the Red Star – with equal space for an allbecrushing reply.1990, Andrei Navrozov, The Times, Saturday May 5, 1990

Forms of all-becrushing

comparativemore all-becrushing
superlativemost all-becrushing

Origin of all-becrushing

all- + be- + crushing, nonce coinage by S. T. Coleridge to render Mendelssohn's alleszermalmend, in reference to Kant.

Questions about all-becrushing

What does all-becrushing mean?
All-becrushing means crushing all.
What part of speech is all-becrushing?
All-becrushing is an adjective.

Words near all-becrushing in the dictionary

  1. All-Americans
  2. all-around
  3. all-arounder
  4. all-arounders
  5. all-as-one
  6. all-becrushing
  7. all-boys
  8. all-but
  9. all-caps
  10. all-cargo
  11. all-cause

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