I remember someone said to me that "the man crushed the box flat", so that is the structure "to crush + N + adjective".
And it seems most dictionaries say "to crush + N + to death".
My question is that,
Can we say "I crushed the cockroach dead"?
If we can, then
What is the difference between "I crushed the cockroach dead" and "I crushed the cockroach to death"?