Crushed into small fragments, or to powder or pulp, by heavy blows; beaten small; comminuted.

Esp. of a foodstuff: (partially) ground or broken down by a pestle, millstone, or other implement; pounded, crushed.

Beaten small, bruised, pounded.

Of substances: Ground, brayed, crushed.

Pounded.

pounded.

= brayed, adj.

Crushed by stamping; pounded with pestle and mortar; crushed or pounded in a stamp-mill; trodden hard with the feet.

= ground, adj., in various senses.

Crushed, ground to pieces; worn by rubbing.

= well-ground, adj. (in various senses).

Pounded small; whipped up to uniform consistency.

Reduced to minute particles, or portions.

Reduced to fine particles by grinding or crushing.

= beaten, adj., often used as participle; as adj. chiefly in the sense: Overcome by hard work or… literally. Obsolete, archaic, or dialect.

With adverbs, as ground-down (also figurative, exhausted), ground-up.

= brayed, adj. 1.

Broken up into very fine particles.