Something that's crushed is broken or crumbled into small pieces, or crumpled so that it's very wrinkled. Crushed ice is one way to chill your lemonade on a hot day.
Adjective S.
broken or pounded into small fragments; used of e.g. ore or stone; "paved with crushed bluestone"; "ground glass is used as an abrasive"
Adjective S.
subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
Adjective S.
treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"
imp. & p. p.
of Crush
Usage Examples
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Other Usage ExamplesHe who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
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