Crusted vs Crushed - What's the difference?
crusted | crushed |
(crust)
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
* Macaulay
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.
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crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)
To cover with a crust.
* Boyle
* Felton
To form a crust.
(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.
As verbs the difference between crusted and crushed
is that crusted is past tense of crust while crushed is past tense of crush.As an adjective crushed is
pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.crusted
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* *crust
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(wikipedia crust)Noun
- Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
- They made the crust for the venison pasty.
- You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.
Verb
(en verb)- The whole body is crusted over with ice.
- Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
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*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.}}