1. Treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance
   "crushed velvet"
    
2. Subdued or brought low in condition or status
   "a crushed man";
   - broken, humbled, humiliated, low
    
3. Disappointingly unsuccessful
   "crushed expectations and thwarted ambitions";
   - defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted, gutted [Brit, informal]

1. Use force to compress, making out of normal shape or condition
   "crush an aluminium can";
   - squash, squelch, mash, squeeze, squidge [informal], squish [informal]
    
2. Break into small pieces
   "The car crushed the toy"
    
3. Hurt or bruise with a squashing force
   "crush a toe";
   - jam
    
4. Become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
   "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall"
    
5. Dominate or subjugate by unjust use of one's authority and power
   "The government crushes political activists";
   - oppress, suppress
    
6. Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; defeat thoroughly
   "The underdog crushed the defending champion";
   - beat, beat out, shell [US], trounce, vanquish
    
7. Humiliate or depress completely
   "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation";
   - smash
    
8. Make ineffective
   "Martin Luther King tried to crush racial discrimination";
   - break down

See also: humble, rough, unsmooth, unsuccessful

Type of: abase, act, alter, break, break up, bruise, chagrin, change, come apart, contuse [technical], exceed, fall apart, fragment, fragmentise [Brit], fragmentize, humble, humiliate, modify, mortify, move, outdo, outgo [archaic], outmatch, outperform, outstrip, press, separate, split up, surmount, surpass

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