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Squashed vs Crushed - What's the difference?

squashed | crushed |

As adjectives the difference between squashed and crushed

is that squashed is squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp while crushed is pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.

As verbs the difference between squashed and crushed

is that squashed is past tense of squash while crushed is past tense of crush.

squashed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • squeezed until flattened, or until a pulp
  • suppressed or silenced

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (squash)

    • 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