Associations to the word «Crushed»

Wiktionary

CRUSHED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of crush
CRUSHED, adjective. Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
CRUSHED, adjective. Broken, saddened, depressed.
CRUSHED, adjective. (not comparable) (textiles) Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.
CRUSHED SUGAR, noun. A type of sugar that is crushed into granules. Lumpy sweet, white, refined sugar.
CRUSHED SUGARS, noun. Plural of crushed sugar

Dictionary definition

CRUSHED, adjective. Treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet".
CRUSHED, adjective. Subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats