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Today, E-Cubed 10093.

We're going to be talking about three words that are very similar, but used in different ways.

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Crush, smash, and squash. Crush, C-R-U-S-H, smash, smash, S-M-A-S-M-A-S-H, and Squash. So first let's talk about crush. To crush something means to press it or squeeze it with force, usually your hands or even your feet.

And you squeeze it, you press it, and it breaks, or it becomes flat.

So, for example, there was a big truck that drove over a box on the road and crushed it.

The box is flat.

Or there was a can, an empty can, and I stepped on it hard,

and I crushed it. It's flat. Okay, so that's the idea of crush.

Next, we have smash. To smash something means to hit and break it with great force. Usually it's, it could be

glass, usually glass. It could be a person too. And if you hit glass like a window with great

force, what happens to the glass glass it shatters or it breaks into pieces so

for example he got so angry that he picked up his phone and smashed it on the ground

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