ppl. a. [f. CRUSH v. + -ED.]
1. Bruised or broken by pressure; pressed or squeezed out of shape; fig. overwhelmed, subdued utterly.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., I. ii. 175. That is but a crush’d necessity.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, VIII. 166. The crush’d and mangled corpse.
1851–5. Brimley, Ess., 248. To awaken his crushed intelligence.
2. Bruised or broken down into small pieces or powder.
1855. J. F. Johnston, Chem. Com. Life, iv. (1879), 58. Crushed bones are strewed over a meadow.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 943. There are three classes of sugar-refineries in this country, the chief productions of which are, respectively: 1st, Loaf-sugar; 2nd, Crystals … 3rd, Crushed sugar.
3. Crushed morocco (Bookbinding): morocco leather, grained, shaved thin, pressed between iron plates, and polished. Crushed strawberry: the color of strawberries when crushed or bruised.
