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Definition of Crushed
1. Adjective. Treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance. "Crushed velvet"
2. Adjective. Subdued or brought low in condition or status. "His broken spirit"
Definition of Crushed
1. Verb. (past of crush) ¹
2. Adjective. pulverised, rendered into small, disconnected fragments. ¹
3. Adjective. Broken, saddened, depressed ¹
4. Adjective. (not comparable textiles) Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crushed
1. crush [v] - See also: crush
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Literary usage of Crushed
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1. Report by Illinois Highway Commission (1913)
"EXTENT OF DISTRIBUTION OF crushed STONE. A study of the following tables will
show that during 1910 applications for crushed stone were received from 53 ..."
2. Bulletin Mount Ve (1906)
"The usual sizes to which crushed stone is separated are 21/2 inch, 1 inch, ...
In making a gravel or crushed stone road the fundamental parts of a road must ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"A crushed FLOWER. BY FH PALMER. I know not why a thing so passing fair As this
sweet flower which I found today Should yield its fragrance to the desert air ..."
4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"We crushed him to death! Fiend! The door slammed behind her. Mr Casey, freeing
his arms from his holders, suddenly bowed his head on his hands with a sob of ..."
5. The Era of the Protestant Revolution by Frederic Seebohm, George Park Fisher (1891)
"The movement crushed at Florence. PT. n. with his spirit of religious reform.
But the movement at Florence was now thoroughly crushed. ..."
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