1. Treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance
   "crushed velvet" 
2. Subdued or brought low in condition or status
   - broken, humbled, humiliated, low

1. Come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
   - oppress, suppress 
2. To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
   "crush an aluminium can"
   - squash, squelch, mash, squeeze 
3. Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
   - beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish 
4. Break into small pieces
   "The car crushed the toy" 
5. Humiliate or depress completely
   "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"
   - smash, demolish 
6. Crush or bruise
   - jam 
7. Make ineffective
   - break down 
8. Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
   "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"

See also: crusher, crushing, humble, rough, unsmooth

Type of: abase, alter, break, break up, bruise, chagrin, change, come apart, contuse, defeat, fall apart, fragment, fragmentise [Brit], fragmentize, get the better of, humble, humiliate, modify, mortify, overcome, press, separate, split up

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