Crushed vs Splintered - What's the difference?
crushed | splintered |
(crush)
Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
Broken, saddened, depressed.
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, title= (not comparable, textiles) Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.
(splinter)
A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
To come apart into long sharp fragments.
To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
* Prescott
(figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
As verbs the difference between crushed and splintered
is that crushed is (crush) while splintered is (splinter).As an adjective crushed
is pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.crushed
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(en adjective)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.}}
Derived terms
* crushed sugar * crushed velvetsplintered
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(head)splinter
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (long sharp fragment) shard, spelk. * (group formed by splitting) faction, splinter group.Verb
(en verb)- The tall tree splintered during the storm.
- His third kick splintered the door.
- After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and abandoned the field to the enemy.
- The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.
- The unpopular new policies splintered the company.
- (Bishop Wren)