crushed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of crush

comparative more crushed · superlative most crushed

1. Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
2. Broken, saddened, depressed, devastated.

   We were totally crushed upon hearing the news of your accident.

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   […] 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, →OCLC

3. not comparablebusinessOf a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.

   Her top was of black crushed velvet.