crusher
61
3.9
- noun
- /ˈkrʌʃər/
- Specialized
:
trituradora
- After screening, the material is sent along one production line, including crusher and conveyor, to compost storage.
- rock crusher
- feeder for the crusher
- lamp crusher
Examples
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The small jaw crusher sizes the stone for a vertical shaft impact, or VSI, crusher.
Academic text (2001) -
The construction workers used a crusher to break the concrete into smaller pieces.
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- ...into a rock crusher?
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Okay, Commander, now, as soon as the first crusher hits you...
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Since installing its first one commercially in 1998, Penn Crusher has been pushing them hard.
Academic text (2001) -
Syncrude's mining trucks deliver their cargoes to one of two crusher stations at the North Mine.
Academic text (1998) -
They ship the soy overseas, put them in these giant machines called crushers, and turn them into feed for livestock and then that's used to produce beef to feed people.
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The recycling facility has a powerful crusher that reduces plastic bottles to tiny flakes.
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Farmers utilize a crusher to turn harvested fruit into juice effectively.
Synonyms
141
4.1
A machine that uses pressure to shape, cut, or squeeze things
27
2.5
A machine that crushes materials, for example coffee beans
13
3.8
A machine that presses waste or soil to make it smaller
2
7.8
A machine that breaks large rocks or materials into smaller pieces
1
7.2
A machine that crushes things into powder or small pieces
1
6.0
A machine that crushes and compacts large items like cans or boxes
1
7.7
A machine that breaks materials into small pieces or dust
1
5.9
A machine that grinds plant material into small pieces to cover soil
1
5.6
A machine or person that presses things flat
1
8.7
A person or machine that makes paper wrinkled
A machine that breaks things like food and tissue into small pieces for disposal and processing
A machine that cuts plastic or organic waste into small pieces
A machine that breaks materials like plastic or organic waste into small pieces
A machine or person that crushes things like fruit and paper to remove the soft inner part
A machine that uses force to shape, cut, or squeeze materials
Antonyms
Compounds
How Strong
- US
1
7.2
- Specialized
61
3.9
- Specialized
27
2.5
11
1.3
10
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crusher comes from the verb crush, which means 'to squeeze or break', and the ending -er meaning 'one who does'. So a crusher is a machine or tool that does that — it 'squeezes or breaks' things into smaller pieces.