used to emphasize how bad or severe something is (强调糟糕或严重的程度)惨重的,毁坏性的 a crushing defeat in the election 在选举中的惨败 The shipyard has been dealt another crushing blow with the failure to win this contract. 由于未能赢得这份合同,造船厂又遭到了一次惨重的打击。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCrushing is used with these nouns:- blow
- burden
- defeat
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