crushing reply
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crushing — crush|ing [ krʌʃıŋ ] adjective 1. ) complete and achieved very easily: a crushing defeat/victory 2. ) very severe: a crushing blow: It s a crushing blow for the president s foreign policy. 3. ) criticizing someone or something very severely: a… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
crushing — UK [ˈkrʌʃɪŋ] / US adjective 1) complete and achieved very easily a crushing defeat/victory 2) very severe a crushing blow: It s a crushing blow for the president s foreign policy. 3) criticizing someone or something very severely a crushing reply … English dictionary
crushing — adjective 1 very hard to deal with, and making you lose hope and confidence: the crushing burden of debt | crushing blow (=something that makes you lose hope and confidence): Failing his final exams was a crushing blow. | crushing defeat: his… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
crushing — crush|ing [ˈkrʌʃıŋ] adj [usually before noun] 1.) very hard to deal with, and making you lose hope and confidence ▪ The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat . ▪ Failing his final exams was a crushing blow (=made him lose hope and… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Defensio pro Populo Anglicano — is a Latin polemic by John Milton, published in 1651. The full title in English is John Milton an Englishman His Defence of the People of England.[1] It was a piece of propaganda,[2] and made political argument in support of what was at the time… … Wikipedia
squelcher — squelch·er || skweltʃə(r) n. one who silences with a crushing retort; crushing reply … English contemporary dictionary
squelchers — squelch·er || skweltʃə(r) n. one who silences with a crushing retort; crushing reply … English contemporary dictionary
Burke, Edmund — (1729 1797) Statesman, orator, and political philosopher, was the s. of an attorney in Dublin, where he was b. His f. was a Protestant, but his mother, whose maiden name was Nagle, was a Roman Catholic. He received his early ed. at a Quaker… … Short biographical dictionary of English literature
Squelch — Squelch, n. 1. A heavy fall, as of something flat. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: A crushing reply; as, the perfect squelch for a conceited remark. [Colloq.] Hudibras. [1913 Webster +PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
History of Cuba — 1736 map by Herman Moll of the West Indies and Mexico, together comprising New Spain , with Cuba visible in the center. The known history of Cuba, the largest of the Caribbean islands, predates Christopher Columbus sighting of the island during… … Wikipedia
Maria Callcott — Maria Callcott, painted by her second husband, Sir Augustus Wall Callcott. Maria Graham (19 July 1785[1] – 21 November 1842[2]), later Maria, Lady Callcott (often erroneously styled by modern commentators Lady Maria Callcott … Wikipedia
