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# crushingly

adverb

«crushingly» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Crushingly means very strongly or in a way that is overwhelming, so you feel defeated or flattened. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/#m1)
2. Crushingly is used before adjectives like «boring», «disappointing» or «obvious» to mean «extremely». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/#m2)

### In the lessons

Used in sports reports and stories: «crushingly defeated» (beaten by a lot), «crushingly disappointing» (very upsetting). It tells the reader the feeling or result was overwhelming.

### Examples

- Our team was crushingly defeated, 9–0. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/#x1)
- The ending of the film was crushingly sad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/#x2)
- The long speech was crushingly boring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/#x3)
- It was crushingly obvious that he had eaten the cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/#x4)
- The news was crushingly disappointing for the fans. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/#x5)
- The heat was crushingly heavy in the afternoon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/#x6)

### Note

Adjective: crushing (a crushing defeat). Verb: crush. In a sports problem, «crushingly beaten» means a big difference in score.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «crushingly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«crushingly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/crushingly.html) on Mova free.