Shattering vs Crushing - What's the difference?
shattering | crushing |
The act of something that shatters.
* 1997 , J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority (page 226)
That crushes; overwhelming.
Devastatingly disheartening.
The action of the verb to crush .
A former method of execution.
As verbs the difference between shattering and crushing
is that shattering is while crushing is .As nouns the difference between shattering and crushing
is that shattering is the act of something that shatters while crushing is the action of the verb to crush .As an adjective crushing is
that crushes; overwhelming.shattering
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings , because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass)
Anagrams
*crushing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- a crushing defeat
- crushing guilt
- Oh, your dog has leukemia? That’s crushing .
Synonyms
(disheartening) * (l) (British) * See alsoNoun
(wikipedia crushing)- oilseed crushings