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crushed

[ US /ˈkɹəʃt/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈʌʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance
    crushed velvet
  2. subdued or brought low in condition or status
    his broken spirit
    a broken man
    brought low

How To Use crushed In A Sentence

  • Divide half the mixture between 4 glass bowls, then sprinkle with a few fresh raspberries and a bit more crushed honeycomb. The Sun
  • Ireland does not have another manufacturing facility with a similar capacity to absorb glass cullet (crushed glass).
  • He experimented by exposing paraffin wax to crushed Salvia leaves and found the solid wax readily adsorbed the volatile terpenes from the air.
  • He experimented by exposing paraffin wax to crushed Salvia leaves and found the solid wax readily adsorbed the volatile terpenes from the air.
  • An iceberg smashes its way to the surface, all sharp angles and ragged edges, rearing over the barely visible remains of a crushed and sinking ship.
  • They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
  • That proud record lasted eight minutes before they were crushed under the German machine. The Sun
  • Add a crushed clove of garlic .
  • That proud record lasted eight minutes before they were crushed under the German machine. The Sun
  • Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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