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US
/ˈkɹəʃt/
]
[ UK /kɹˈʌʃt/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈʌʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance
crushed velvet -
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.
- 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.
- The manaesh, a slightly thicker bread crusted with sour crushed sumac and wild Armenian thyme, was pretty great too, especially when you toast it at home and have it with your coffee in the morning.