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Crust vs Crushed - What's the difference?

crust | crushed |

As verbs the difference between crust and crushed

is that crust is to cover with a crust while crushed is (crush).

As a noun crust

is a more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.

As an adjective crushed is

pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.

crust

English

(wikipedia crust)

Noun

  • A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
  • The external layer of most types of bread.
  • An outer layer composed of pastry
  • * Dryden
  • Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
  • * Macaulay
  • They made the crust for the venison pasty.
  • The bread-like base of a pizza.
  • (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
  • The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
  • (uncountable) Nerve, gall.
  • You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.
  • *
  • crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with a crust.
  • * Boyle
  • The whole body is crusted over with ice.
  • * Felton
  • Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
  • To form a crust.
  • Anagrams

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    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