crushed
/kɹʌʃt/ adjective B2- Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
- Broken, saddened, depressed, devastated. · We were totally crushed upon hearing the news of your accident.
- 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!
AN OX drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death.
“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.”
It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: “I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds.” They replied, “You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are destroyed; while we on the contrary bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken, and escape.”
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