| Example in Dutch | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Spock verdampt steen en zoals het altijd is geweest: steen vergruizelt schaar. | Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors. |
| Spock verplettert schaar, schaar onthooft hagedis, hagedis eet papier, papier ontkracht Spock, Spock verdampt steen en zoals het altijd is geweest: steen vergruizelt schaar. | Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors. |
| Betty, deze lotion bevat vergruizelde diamanten en... | Betty? This lotion is made from crushed diamonds and... |
| De machines sloegen op tilt en de stenen vergruizelden en dat raakte vermengd met water. | Well, you see, Mr. Slate, the machinery went haywire and the rocks got all crushed up... and that got mixed in with water and that came all down the hill. - Mr. Slate, I'm sorry! |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | سحق | Danish | mase |
| English | crush | Esperanto | disbati,dispremi |
| Estonian | kägardama, rutjuma | Faroese | syndra |
| Finnish | hienontaa, murskata, musertaa, peitota, rusentaa, rutata, rutistaa | French | broyer, écrabouiller, piler, pillaver |
| German | abquetschen, abwürgen, zerdrücken, zerficken, zermalmen, zerquetschen | Greek | συντρίβω |
| Icelandic | kremja | Indonesian | berjejal, meremuk |
| Italian | acciaccare, pestare, ripestare, schiacciare, spappolare, stritolare | Japanese | 打ち壊す |
| Lithuanian | gniuždyti, knežinti, smulkinti, sugniuždyti, suknežinti, sutraiškyti, traiškyti | Macedonian | здроби, надроби |
| Maori | hahau | Polish | gnieść, miażdżyć, podkochiwać, przygnieść, przywalić, rozdrobnić, rozgniatać, rozmiażdżyć, roztłamsić, zgniatać, zgnieść, zgruchotać, zmiażdżyć |
| Portuguese | esmagar, esmigalhar | Quechua | chanqay |
| Russian | дробить, задавить, заминать, замять, раздавить, раздробить, раздроблять | Spanish | abrumar, apachar, apachurrar, aplastar, chafar, machacar, majar |
| Swedish | krossa | Thai | ขยี้ |
| Turkish | ezmek | Vietnamese | nghiền, phải lòng |