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# crushingly

«crushingly» in Mova's school dictionary: **very strongly or in a way that is overwhelming, so you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Crushingly means very strongly or in a way that is overwhelming, so you feel defeated or flattened. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crushingly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crushingly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.