crushing

  • (s) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
    • a crushing blow
    • a crushing rejection
    • bone-crushing
    devastating,

Nouns

  • (n) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
    • the suppression of heresy
    • the quelling of the rebellion
    • the stifling of all dissent
    quelling, stifling, suppression,

Synonyms

devastating quelling stifling suppression

Words of close approximity

crushingly