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Staggering vs Crushing - What's the difference?

staggering | crushing |

As verbs the difference between staggering and crushing

is that staggering is while crushing is .

As adjectives the difference between staggering and crushing

is that staggering is incredible, overwhelming, amazing while crushing is that crushes; overwhelming.

As nouns the difference between staggering and crushing

is that staggering is the motion of one who staggers while crushing is the action of the verb to crush .

staggering

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
  • The army suffered a staggering defeat.

    Derived terms

    * staggeringly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of one who staggers.
  • * 1837 , Memoirs of Mirabeau'' (in ''The Westminster Review , volume 26, page 436)
  • There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings
  • That which staggers something or somebody.
  • * (Ebenezer Erskine)
  • But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings , although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory

    crushing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That crushes; overwhelming.
  • a crushing defeat
  • Devastatingly disheartening.
  • crushing guilt
    Oh, your dog has leukemia? That’s crushing .

    Synonyms

    (disheartening) * (l) (British) * See also

    Noun

    (wikipedia crushing)
  • The action of the verb to crush .
  • oilseed crushings
  • A former method of execution.
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