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CRUSHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subdued or brought low in condition or status
Example:
his broken spirit
Synonyms:
broken; crushed; humbled; humiliated; low
Classified under:
Similar:
humble (marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance
Example:
crushed velvet
Classified under:
Similar:
rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb crush
Context examples:
Toto did not approve of this new comrade at first, for he could not forget how nearly he had been crushed between the Lion's great jaws.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The process by which food is torn or crushed by the teeth.
(Mastication, NCI Thesaurus)
We are still surrounded by mountains of ice, still in imminent danger of being crushed in their conflict.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And indeed the doom that is closing on us both has already changed and crushed him.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Their method was to fall forward with their full weight upon each in turn, leaving him crushed and mangled, to bound on after the others.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Lucky for you I am, for if I put on crushed airs and tried to be dismal, as you do, we should be in a nice state.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The cause of his death was a frightful blow upon the head, which had crushed in part of his skull.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A neutron star is the crushed core left behind when a star much more massive than the Sun runs out of fuel, collapses under its own weight and explodes as a supernova.
(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)
