CRUSHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crushed mean? 

• CRUSHED (adjective)
  The adjective CRUSHED has 2 senses:

1. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance

2. subdued or brought low in condition or status

  Familiarity information: CRUSHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUSHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance

Context example:

crushed velvet

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Subdued or brought low in condition or status

Synonyms:

broken; crushed; humbled; humiliated; low

Context example:

his broken spirit

Similar:

humble (marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful)

 Context examples 

He had despaired at one period; he had received such an injunction to caution and silence, as for the time crushed every hope;—she had begun by refusing to hear him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I saw Maud, my Maud, straining and struggling and crushed in the embrace of Wolf Larsen’s arms.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then he crushed the bones between rocks, pounded them to a pulp, and swallowed them.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine if he had chosen.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Think twice, you, Micawber, if you don't want to be crushed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I got past it and got one in with my stick that crushed his head like an egg.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To Ruth's amazement, Martin was not immediately crushed, and that the professor replied in the way he did struck her as forbearance for Martin's youth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In crushing his passions he had well-nigh crushed himself.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bone was crushed, but there was no great external injury.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neutron stars are the crushed, leftover cores of massive stars that previously exploded as supernovas long ago.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)