crushed

• IPA^(key): /kɹʌʃt/

crushed

1. simple past tense and past participle of crush

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.

• crushed sugar
• crushed velvet