crushed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹʌʃt/

Verb

crushed

1. simple past and past participle of crush

Adjective

crushed (comparative more crushed, superlative most crushed)

1. Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
2. Broken, saddened, depressed.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     […] 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.

3. (not comparable, textiles) Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.

   Her top was of black crushed velvet.

Derived terms

• crushed sugar
• crushed velvet

Translations

pulverised

• Czech: drcený (cs) m, rozdrcený m
• Danish: knust
• Dutch: verpletterd (nl)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: knust

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• Romanian: zdrobit (ro)
• Russian: дроблёный (ru) (drobljónyj), толчёный (ru) (tolčónyj)

saddened

• Czech: zdrcený m
• French: attristé (fr), déprimé (fr)
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• Russian: пода́вленный (ru) (podávlennyj), разби́тый (ru) (razbítyj)