leather - an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning

crowd - a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

snarl-up, traffic jam - a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move

love - a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love"

compressing, compression - applying pressure

pulverisation, pulverization, grind, mill - the act of grinding to a powder or dust

quash, repress, subdue, subjugate, keep down, reduce - put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"

wring - twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"

press - exert pressure or force to or upon; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot"

stamp - crush or grind with a heavy instrument; "stamp fruit extract the juice"

steamroller - crush with a steamroller as if to level; "steamroller the road"

tread - crush as if by treading on; "tread grapes to make wine"

telescope - crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

outscore, outpoint - score more points than one's opponents

walk over - beat easily; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship"

eliminate - remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"

worst, whip, mop up, pip, rack up - defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"

whomp - beat overwhelmingly

spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle - defeat disastrously

get the jump - be there first; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors"

chicane, chouse, jockey, cheat, shaft, screw - defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit

outsmart, outwit, overreach, circumvent, outfox, beat - beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"

outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount - be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class"

defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"

best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump - get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"

outfight - to fight better than; get the better of; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans"

overmaster, overpower, overwhelm - overcome by superior force

checkmate, mate - place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"

immobilise, immobilize - make defenseless

outplay - excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Mets"

drub, lick, clobber, bat, thrash - beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"

fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up - break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"

bruise - break up into small pieces for food preparation; "bruise the berries with a wooden spoon and strain them"

abase, chagrin, humiliate, humble, mortify - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

bruise, contuse - injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of; "I bruised my knee"

alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

come apart, break, split up, fall apart, separate - become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"