crushed

crushed
    adj 1: treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance;
           "crushed velvet"
    2: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low";
       "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: {broken},
       {crushed}, {humbled}, {humiliated}, {low}]
    

Crush \Crush\ (kr[u^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crushed}
   (kr[u^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crushing}.] [OE. cruschen,
   crousshen, Of. cruisir, croissir, fr. LL. cruscire, prob. of
   Ger. origin, from a derivative of the word seen in Goth.
   kruistan to gnash; akin to Sw. krysta to squeeze, Dan.
   kryste, Icel. kreysta.]
   1. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so
      as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts,
      or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.
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            Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is
            bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut. --Lev. xxii.
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            The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and
            crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. --Num. xxii.
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   2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to
      comminute; as, to crush quartz.
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   3. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down,
      as by an incumbent weight.
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            To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. --Bryant.
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   4. To oppress or burden grievously.
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            Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway.
                                                  --Deut.
                                                  xxviii. 33.
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   5. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
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            Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels. --Sir.
                                                  W. Scott.
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   6. to subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting
      remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or
      humiliation; to squelch.
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   {To crush a cup}, to drink. [Obs.]

   {To crush out}.
      (a) To force out or separate by pressure, as juice from
          grapes.
      (b) To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress.
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crushed \crushed\ adj.
   1. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance;
      -- of fabrics; as, crushed velvet.
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   2. utterly defeated.

   Syn: subdued.
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   3. brought low in condition or status by confusion,
      humiliation, or severe disappointment.

   Syn: broken, humbled, humiliated, low.
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   4. broken or pounded into small fragments; used of e.g. ore
      or stone. paved with crushed bluestone

   Syn: ground.
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134 Moby Thesaurus words for "crushed":
      abashed, ashamed, baffled, balked, betrayed, bilked, blasted,
      blighted, blushing, branny, broken, broken-down, brokenhearted,
      brought low, chagrined, chalklike, chalky, chapfallen, comminute,
      comminuted, conquered, crestfallen, crossed, cut up, dashed,
      deep-troubled, defeated, demoralized, desolate, desolated,
      detrital, detrited, disappointed, disconsolate, dished,
      disillusioned, disintegrated, dissatisfied, domesticated, dusty,
      efflorescent, embarrassed, farinaceous, felled, fine, flaky,
      flattened, floury, foiled, frustrated, furfuraceous, gone to dust,
      grated, ground, hangdog, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken,
      heartsick, housebroke, housebroken, humbled, humiliated,
      ill done-by, ill-served, impalpable, inundated, let down,
      levigated, made to grovel, mastered, mealy, milled, miserable,
      mortified, neurasthenic, out of countenance, overcome, overwhelmed,
      pestled, powdered, powdery, prostrate, prostrated, pulverant,
      pulverized, pulverulent, put down, quashed, quelled, red-faced,
      reduced, reduced to jelly, reduced to powder, regretful, repressed,
      scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, shaken, shamed, shamefaced,
      shamefast, sharded, shot, shot to pieces, shredded, smashed,
      smothered, sorely disappointed, soured, squashed, squelched,
      stifled, stricken, subdued, subjugated, suffocated, suicidal,
      suppressed, tamed, thwarted, triturated, undone, unglued, unmanned,
      unnerved, unstrung, upset, vanquished, woebegone, woeful,
      wretched