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Synonyms for crushing
The synonym for crushing recorded in this bank is devastating, in the sense "physically or spiritually devastating". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for crushing
- devastatingadjective, in the sense "physically or spiritually devastating"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for crushing.
physically or spiritually devastating
A crushing blow.
The true synonym
devastating
Same sentence, swapped: A devastating blow.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where crushing stands in the sentence above.
- punishing
- troublesome
- humiliating
Where crushing turns up in the game
crushing is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where crushing is the trap
- punishingadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is hard, in the sense "characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion", and crushing is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play crushing
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so crushing reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other words at Treeline, then their alphabetical neighbours.
One vocabulary, two jobs
crushing is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.