(1) The root-ginger should be crushed up before it is added to the boiling jam.

(2) She crushed up the letter angrily.

(3) I crushed up the cockroach in my clothes and practically ripped my blouse off, there in open sunlight.

(4) Please crush up a little.

(5) Who was your celebrity crush up?

(6) I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup.

(7) Investigators found that the men had disguised the holes by using the heavy metal wheel to crush up the rubble and hide it in plastic boxes used to store their personal possessions.