In the early years, he would have felt crushed, or at least set back, by the curt dismissal.

She felt bruised and crushed and helpless.

They must be feeling pretty crushed.

Jeffrey felt crushed and numb.

Henry, whom Maria had expected to propose to her, leaves, and she feels crushed, realising that he does not love her.

Still at the moment he felt very crushed.

Black voters who had begun to anticipate having a new, loud voice in city affairs now felt crushed and resentful in defeat.

She had been so uncompromising and obsessed with detail, and Nikolai Ivanovich had stood in such awe of her, that Elena Alexandrovna had felt crushed.

But though his body felt crushed and bruised, he could still move, and he hobbled to where his rifle lay.

Well, if so she had succeeded, for never did I feel so crushed and humiliated as at that moment.