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Bewildered vs Crushed - What's the difference?

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Bewildered is a related term of crushed.


As adjectives the difference between bewildered and crushed

is that bewildered is baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain while crushed is pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.

As verbs the difference between bewildered and crushed

is that bewildered is (bewilder) while crushed is (crush).

bewildered

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain.
    • He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.

    Derived terms

    * bewilderedly

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bewilder)

    • crushed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (crush)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
  • Broken, saddened, depressed.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
  • (not comparable, textiles) Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.

    • Derived terms

    * crushed sugar * crushed velvet