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Smushed vs Crushed - What's the difference?

smushed | crushed |

As verbs the difference between smushed and crushed

is that smushed is (smush) while crushed is (crush).

As an adjective crushed is

pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.

smushed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (smush)

  • smush

    English

    Alternative forms

    * smoosh

    Noun

    (smushes)
  • A beaten or pulverized mass.
  • An act of crushing or squeezing.
  • * 2013 Dec. 22, Jad Mouawad and Martha C. White, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/business/on-jammed-jets-sardines-turn-on-one-another.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 23 December 2013):
  • *:Some carriers are taking the smush to new heights. Spirit Airlines, for instance, uses seats on some flights with the backrest permanently set back three inches. Call it, as Spirit does, “prereclined.”
  • Verb

    (es)
  • to mash; or push; especially to push down or in; compress
  • (slang, New York, US) To engage in intimate contact, especially sexual relations.
  • * 2011 . Jenni Farley "The Rules According to JWOWW"
  • Exercising can take your smushing to a whole new level. WORK OUT I am not shitting you: experts say exercise can make sex mind- blowing.
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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