crushed

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If you don't understand that, and your competitors do, you will get crushed.

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treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"

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adjective

treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"

adjective

subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crushed.

adjective

treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"

adjective

subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"

See also: broken, humbled, humiliated, low

Example sentences

If you don't understand that, and your competitors do, you will get crushed.

Most of them, if they ever even get a chance to try, will end up being crushed by a world that is reluctant to change.

We're always crushed by deadlines the time it takes to be sure we haven't made any literacy assumptions is time we don't have.

Wake up and look at the world around you and realize that just because you haven't been crushed by the state yet, doesn't mean it's never going to happen.

In this case, the state was far more powerful than we, and any attempts at violence by us would be devastatingly crushed.

You can predict, with very high probability, the outcome of the game based solely on who's playing, and most people don't like being crushed by the same players over and over again.

But anyone else going in with naive ideals is probably going to get their souls crushed by the sheer drudgery of it, with no Time magazine cover to boost their profiles at the end of it.

We have the most fleeting glimpses of understanding that are regularly crushed by the complexity of dynamic systems with nested feedback loops and multiple semi-overlapping redundancies.

At the same time a fly that travels at a steady 15 mph starts from the front wheel of the southbound bicycle and flies to the front wheel of the northbound one, then turns around and flies to the front wheel of the southbound one again, and continues in this manner till he is crushed between the two front wheels.

You'll call me a cock, and then I'll rip you in half verbally, and then you'll forget that you called me a cock and go off telling everyone I'm such a big bad bullying meanie for all the horrible awful things I said to you, and then I'll be crushed by the general opinion all you highly influential meaningful people have about me that I'll...Wait, actually I don't give a fuck what you think.