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simple past and past participle of crush examples
comparative more crushed, superlative most crushed
Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments. examples
Broken, saddened, depressed. quotations examples
[…] 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
(not comparable, textiles) Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed. examples