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Deformed vs Crushed - What's the difference?

deformed | crushed |

As adjectives the difference between deformed and crushed

is that deformed is unusual of shape; misshapen while crushed is pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.

As verbs the difference between deformed and crushed

is that deformed is past tense of deform while crushed is past tense of crush.

deformed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unusual of shape; misshapen.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (deform)

    • 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