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crushing out

crushing out is the present participle and gerund of crush out.

Meaning of crush out

Verb

crush out (third-person singular simple present crushes out, present participle crushing out, simple past and past participle crushed out)

  1. (US, dated, slang) To escape from prison or jail, especially by violence.

Questions about crushing out

What is crushing out the present participle and gerund of?
Crushing out is the present participle and gerund of crush out.

Words near crushing out in the dictionary

  1. crushest
  2. crusheth
  3. crushing
  4. crushing it
  5. crushing on
  6. crushing out
  7. crushingest
  8. crushingly
  9. crushingness
  10. crushings
  11. crushlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crushing out (page history and authors); crush out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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