American English pronunciation
How to pronounce crushed
IPA transcription: [k'ɹʌʃt]
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Verb
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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”
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to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
“crush an aluminum can”
“squeeze a lemon”
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come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
“The government oppresses political activists”
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make ineffective
“Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination”
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break into small pieces
“The car crushed the toy”
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crush or bruise
“jam a toe”
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humiliate or depress completely
“She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation”
“The death of her son smashed her”
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become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
“The plastic bottle crushed against the wall”
Adjective
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treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance
“crushed velvet”
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subdued or brought low in condition or status
“brought low”
“a broken man”
“his broken spirit”
Usage examples
- The States' sovereignty party was crushed without a battle being fought.
- The stout wood was crushed like an eggshell.
- Emperor Aurelian, however, crushed the revolt, and Longinus was executed.
- The flowers should be dried and then crushed and mixed with water.
- The stout wood was crushed like an eggshell.
- The stout wood was crushed like an eggshell.
- When crushed, the leaves and flowers smell rather unpleasant.
- It could be crushed up in water, heated and injected.
- Quarries had to be opened nearby to supply the road with crushed stone.
- After the Vienna Uprising was crushed, he decided to emigrate to the United States.