Hi,


What's the difference between squash and crush?


for example:

I have put a heavy book ob the crumbled paper to squash or crush it flat.
My cake got crushed or squashed in the bag.


Thanks

 

"I put a heavy book on top of the crumpled (wrinkled) paper to flatten it (out)" is the construction I would use in the first sentence. I'm assuming in this context that you mean that the piece of paper is wrinkled rather than a crumpled up wad of paper.

"My cake got squashed in the bag" is what I would use for the second example, although, crushed would not be technically wrong.

Crush seems to be used a lot more with objects that are hard or idiomatically and squash tends to be used more with objects that could be considered "squishy" in my opinion.

 

Suggestion: Look them both up in the WR dictionary (use the box at the top of the page) and then you can ask about what still puzzles you.