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verb

Crush v. t. (past & past part. crushed; pres. part. crushing)

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. "Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut." "The ass... thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall."

2.

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

3.

To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight. "To crush the pillars which the pile sustain." "Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again."

4.

To oppress or burden grievously. "Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway."

5.

To overcome completely; to subdue totally. "Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels."

6.

To subdue or overwhelm (a person) by argument or a cutting remark; to cause (a person) to feel chagrin or humiliation; to squelch.

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.

Crush v. i. To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

adjective

crushed adj.

1.

Treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; of fabrics; as, crushed velvet.

2.

Utterly defeated.

Synonyms: subdued.

3.

Brought low in condition or status by confusion, humiliation, or severe disappointment.

Synonyms: broken, humbled, humiliated, low.

4.

Broken or pounded into small fragments; used of e.g. ore or stone. "Paved with crushed bluestone"

Synonyms: ground.

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Etymology of 'Crushed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crushed" Quotes from Famous Books

... he was also crushed. In vain did he struggle to throw off his depression, he had not been taught sufficient common-sense at school to use it as a weapon against this Jesuitical sophistry. It was true, his knowledge of psychology enabled him to modify the statement that dreams are thoughts; dreams are fancies, he mused, ...

— Married • August Strindberg

... his own—the present and the future; the future in which he feared eternal punishment, a fear which led him to make so many sacrifices to the Church; the present, namely his life itself, for the saving of which he blindly obeyed Coyctier. This king, who crushed down all about him, was himself crushed down by remorse, and by disease in the midst of the great poem of defiant monarchy in which all power was concentrated. It was once more the gigantic and ever magnificent combat of Man in the highest ...

— Maitre Cornelius • Honore de Balzac

... girl," he breathed tremulously, "and I'm going to keep tabs on Bert after this. I 'll make him keep straight for her—and for you. He's only a bit weak, after all. And you'll see me again soon—very soon," he finished, as he crushed her hand in a grip that hurt. Then he turned and stumbled away, as if his eyes did not ...

— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter

... was very deceitful. Do you remember, I wrote you of a little baby boy dying? That was my own little Jamie, our first little son. For a long time my heart was crushed. He was such a sweet, beautiful boy. I wanted him so much. He died of erysipelas. I held him in my arms till the last agony was over. Then I dressed the beautiful little body for the grave. Clyde is a carpenter; so I wanted him to make the little coffin. He did it every ...

— Letters of a Woman Homesteader • Elinore Pruitt Stewart

... sides were enormous. La Vendee was almost depopulated; and the Republicans paid dearly, indeed, for their triumph, no fewer than one hundred thousand men having fallen, on their side. La Vendee was crushed, but never surrendered. Had the British government been properly informed, by its agents, of the desperate nature of the struggle that was going on; they might, by throwing twenty thousand troops, with supplies of stores and money into La Vendee, have changed the whole course of events; ...

— No Surrender! - A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee • G. A. Henty

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