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Crutch vs Crushed - What's the difference?

crutch | crushed |

As verbs the difference between crutch and crushed

is that crutch is to support on crutches; to prop up while crushed is (crush).

As a noun crutch

is a device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.

As an adjective crushed is

pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.

crutch

English

(wikipedia crutch)

Noun

(crutches)
  • A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
    • He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll lean upon one crutch , and fight with the other.
  • Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
    • Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.
  • * H. Smith
    • Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone.
  • A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
  • A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
  • (nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.
  • (nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.

    • Verb

  • To support on crutches; to prop up.
  • * Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse. — Dryden.
  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.
  • * After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.'' — 2010 January 29, Emma Partridge, Stock Journal, ''Richie Foster a cut above the rest ,

    • 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