crushed
adj/kɹʌʃt/
1
Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
2
Broken, saddened, depressed, devastated.
- We were totally crushed upon hearing the news of your accident.
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
3
Business, Manufacturing, Textiles Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.
- Her top was of black crushed velvet.
- Derived terms
- crushed strawberry, crushed sugar, crushed velvet, uncrushed