crushed
adj.
smashed, ground, pulverized; downfallen, disappointed
crush
v.
smash, break into small pieces; squeeze hard; defeat, destroy
Crushed
crushed
Adjective
1. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"
(similar) rough, unsmooth
2. subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
(synonym) broken, humbled, humiliated, low
(similar) humble
3. broken or pounded into small fragments; used of e.g. ore or stone; "paved with crushed bluestone"; "ground glass is used as an abrasive"
(synonym) ground
(similar) broken
crush
Noun
1. leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
(synonym) crushed leather
(hypernym) leather
2. a dense crowd of people
(synonym) jam, press
(hypernym) crowd
(hyponym) traffic jam, snarl-up
3. temporary love of an adolescent
(synonym) puppy love, calf love, infatuation
(hypernym) love
4. the act of crushing
(synonym) crunch, compaction
(hypernym) compression, compressing
(hyponym) grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation
Verb
1. come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
(synonym) oppress, suppress
(hyponym) repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce
(derivation) suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling
2. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
(synonym) squash, squelch, mash, squeeze
(hypernym) press
(hyponym) wring
(derivation) crunch, compaction
3. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
(synonym) beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish
(hypernym) get the better of, overcome, defeat
(hyponym) outpoint, outscore
(entail) win
(verb-group) outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent
4. break into small pieces; "The car crushed the toy"
(hypernym) break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
(hyponym) bruise
(derivation) crunch, compaction
5. humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
(synonym) smash, demolish
(hypernym) humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
6. crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
(synonym) jam
(hypernym) bruise, contuse
7. make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
(synonym) break down
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
8. become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
(hypernym) break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
Crushed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Crush
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
crushed
Synonyms and related words:
abashed, ashamed, baffled, balked, betrayed, bilked, blasted, blighted, blushing, branny, broken, broken-down, brokenhearted, brought low, chagrined, chalklike, chalky, chapfallen, comminute, comminuted, conquered, crestfallen, crossed, cut up, dashed, deep-troubled, defeated, demoralized, desolate, desolated, detrital, detrited, disappointed, disconsolate, dished, disillusioned, disintegrated, dissatisfied, domesticated, dusty, efflorescent, embarrassed, farinaceous, felled, fine, flaky, flattened, floury, foiled, frustrated, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, ground, hangdog, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, heartsick, housebroke, housebroken, humbled, humiliated, ill done-by, ill-served, impalpable, inundated, let down, levigated, made to grovel, mastered, mealy, milled, miserable, mortified, neurasthenic, out of countenance, overcome, overwhelmed, pestled, powdered, powdery, prostrate, prostrated, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, put down, quashed, quelled, red-faced, reduced, reduced to jelly, reduced to powder, regretful, repressed, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, shaken, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sharded, shot, shot to pieces, shredded, smashed, smothered, sorely disappointed, soured, squashed, squelched, stifled, stricken, subdued, subjugated, suffocated, suicidal, suppressed, tamed, thwarted, triturated, undone, unglued, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, upset, vanquished, woebegone, woeful, wretched,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.