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crushed

/kɹʌʃt/ adjective B2
  1. Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
  2. Broken, saddened, depressed, devastated. · We were totally crushed upon hearing the news of your accident.
  3. Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed. · Her top was of black crushed velvet.
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this edifice which I have been so long preparing, which I have reared with so much care and toil, is to be crushed by a single touch, a word, a breath!
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 901 · C1
Toto did not approve of this new comrade at first, for he could not forget how nearly he had been crushed between the Lion’s great jaws.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 35 · B2
AN OX drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 24 · B2
“He is dead, dear Mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the pool and crushed him to death with his cloven heel.” The Frog, puffing herself out, inquired, “if the beast was as big as that in size.” “Cease, Mother, to puff yourself out,” said her son, “and do not be angry; for you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully imitate the hugeness of that monster.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 24 · B2

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