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crushed

If something is crushed, it is broken into many small pieces. There's no way I can fixed this, it's completely crushed. If you are crushed, you are very sad or disappointed. I was so crushed when I found out that John wouldn't be coming home for another 4 months.

crushed

treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance crushed velvet (= broken, low) subdued or brought low in condition or status brought low a broken man his broken spirit

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We were crushed into the crowded train.
He was crushed to death.
The king crushed his enemies.
Christopher Columbus once started a revolution, and then crushed it.
Tom crushed the box with his foot.
Tom was crushed.
Tom looks crushed.
The people sought truth in every nook and cranny, and it was there between them that the truth was crushed.
Tom was crushed by the tree that he was cutting down.
Tom was almost crushed by the tree that he was cutting down.
The population was crushed by the taxes.
Tom crushed the cardboard box with his foot.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
He crushed the insect with his heel.
He crushed the box.
Tom crushed the sheet of paper up into a ball and threw it across the room.
They crushed all resistance.
We crushed our enemies.
They crushed their enemies.
A beaver may get crushed by a falling tree.
He crushed the insect mercilessly.
Tom crushed the box.
Tom crushed the can.

Movie subtitles

You have crushed my soul!
Even if it weren't that hot, the atmospheric pressure at the surface is 90 times the Earth's atmospheric pressure, so you'd be crushed.
Finally, the criminal medic could not exactly determine the cause of death of the victim. The body appears to have been crushed.
The inspector Juve has not forgotten the crushed body found at Chaleck's.
It is, after all, better to be frightened than to be crushed.
Your Crusade is crushed.
The enemy will be crushed before even knowing that a war has broken out.
They warned me that my actions would be mercilessly crushed that I would be destroyed.
He stumbled, and it crushed him.
They crushed the flowers, the devils!
He could have crushed me as I would have crushed an eggshell.
His skull was crushed by heavy blows with a sharp instrument.
France has been defeated as I told you she would be, if you remember and her invincible armies completely crushed.
Our troops just crushed the regular army of Abd el-Kader, who wanted to challenge us to a battle.
Crushed it shall be. Again, Murdstone, please!
Yesterday he almost got crushed between two train cars.
Tell me, wasn't Mr. Cantrell just crushed?
Crushed? Buck Cantrell?
Skull crushed in.
He grabbed his rifle in such a way that the bullet crushed his thigh.
Then there's the choosing of scents and lotions - attar of rose, carnation, crushed lily. and musk.
But before that the body gets cut into pieces and the bones get crushed, so that no bloody remains lie on the hill.
I found him at the bottom of the cliff. Crushed to a jelly by a huge rock.
The agitateurs are crushed and the Resistance has disappeared.
I am crushed. - You're a faintheart, doctor. You only serenade when husbands are around.
I still remember how it felt when I crushed it with my foot.
The kid's spirit was crushed.
Tore was afraid he would be crushed between the logs, and let go of the logs he was clinging to-- He would rather go under than be crushed by the floating logs.
Friend of mine got his skull crushed here last week.
I smacked him and he fell and crushed his skull on the kerb.
Yes, crushed by a freight car.
Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear and have their heads crushed like rotten apples!
For Siegella less would be enough, but let's take enough care so we don't end up getting crushed.
I could have crushed you!
You complain about living from hand to mouth about being crushed with taxes.
The whole lid crushed in.
Why have you crushed her hands?
And remember, gentlemen, the mint must be crushed slowly and gently.
The Red Guards were crushed at Migulinskaya.

News and current affairs

That would explain why the Party has crushed them - and why any decent participant in this summer's Olympics should demand their immediate release.
But the Chechen resistance is never crushed as was proved, not only by the taking hostage of over 800 Muscovites last week, but by the numerous successful Chechen raids on Russian troops in and around Chechnya.
It is a bitterness rooted, in other words, in material causes, not in some fanatical, irrational, and anti-democratic sentiment whose adherents must either be re-educated or crushed.
And yet, since Koestler was right, these emotions could not simply be crushed.
All of these protests were brutally crushed, which resulted in many West European Communists leaving the Party in utter disillusion.
He heads one of the world's most oppressive regimes, where there is no pretense at elections and where dissent is instantly crushed.
The rest of Egypt, however, only felt this money in the form of an ever-expanding state apparatus that solidified Mubarak's rule, crushed dissent, and repressed millions.
Instead, serving the center of power, it crushed them.
Although, the Saudi security forces, the National Guard, and the marines crushed the rebellion, the domestic tensions that fueled it remain.
For 50 years, the European Union was not much tested by this mission because nationalist impulses were crushed between the two great Cold War alliances.
Crushed by the bands and wheels of military vehicles, explosions of bombs and mines, and digging of trenches and walls, the desert's crust is broken and the fine sand particles beneath it are exposed to the wind.
Religion was crushed in the name of official Marxist atheism.
I know that stirrings of democracy have been crushed before: in Budapest in 1956, Prague in 1968, and in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Israel has said that it will squeeze Gaza still further, as if the population can be crushed into submission.
Indeed, secular dictators have worked to suppress the Brothers at every turn - often violently, as when Assad ruthlessly crushed a Brotherhood-led uprising in Hama in 1982.
Civil society has been crushed and the middle class decimated--thanks in no small part to the UN-led economic sanctions that have been enforced since 1991.
The rebellion was crushed.
Any attempt at democratization by civil society will thus be crushed in its infancy.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, in power for 18 years, has crushed the opposition.
The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members.
The first days of the conflict in Georgia crushed this hypothesis.
The Internet-inspired uprisings in Iran and then in much of the Arab world were brutally crushed.
The personal charm of the Dalai Lama, combined with the Himalayan air of superior spiritual wisdom, has promoted a caricature of a mystical, wise, and peace-loving people being crushed by a brutal empire.
And it was after the Communists crushed the pro-democracy movement in 1989 that the US helped to turn China into an export juggernaut that has accumulated massive trade surpluses and become the principal source of capital flows to the US.
He did not have much to say about the countless real human beings who would be vaporized, crushed, baked, boiled, or irradiated to death if a nuclear war ever erupted.
Now the country is being divided by the political rivalry between two Sinhalese war idols, each of whom wants to be remembered as the true leader who crushed the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.

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