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Crushed   /krəʃt/   Listen
Crushed

adjective
1.
Treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance.
2.
Subdued or brought low in condition or status.  Synonyms: broken, humbled, humiliated, low.  "A broken man" , "His broken spirit"


Crush

verb
(past & past part. crushed; pres. part. crushing)
1.
Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority.  Synonyms: oppress, suppress.
2.
To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition.  Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch.  "Squeeze a lemon"
3.
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.  Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish.  "We beat the competition" , "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
4.
Break into small pieces.
5.
Humiliate or depress completely.  Synonyms: demolish, smash.  "The death of her son smashed her"
6.
Crush or bruise.  Synonym: jam.
7.
Make ineffective.  Synonym: break down.
8.
Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure.



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"Crushed" Quotes from Famous Books



... fall from a camel. A fierce old bull rushed at the young one he rode, and fell upon him and crushed him." ...
— In the Mahdi's Grasp • George Manville Fenn
... met in December last the business of the country had just been crushed by one of those periodical revulsions which are the inevitable consequence of our unsound and extravagant system of bank credits and inflated currency. With all the elements of national wealth in abundance, our manufactures were suspended, our useful ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 4 (of 4) of Volume 5: James Buchanan • James D. Richardson
... page, as some writer says, in every human life, A hidden story of happier days, of peace amidst the strife. A folded down leaf which the world knows not. A love dream rudely crushed, The sight of a face that is not forgot. Although the voice ...
— Down the Mother Lode • Vivia Hemphill
... so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.' Read of His life as the Man of Sorrows, of His agony in Gethsemane, of His death on the Cross, crushed not merely by physical agony, but by the weight of our iniquities—and you may then judge, if there is any obligations so great as that under which we lie to Him, any loyal service so blessed as that of the Saviour. The gate may be strait, and we may ...
— McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 • Cyrus Macmillan
... appeal to her, the slight habitual furrow on her own brow deepened. She saw that her husband held a newspaper crushed in his right hand, and that his whole air was excited and restless. A miserable, familiar pang passed through her. As the chief and trusted official of an old-established bank in one of the smaller ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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