What's the difference between crushed and trodden?
Crushed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Crush
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(2) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(3) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
(4) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
(5) In case 2, a 26-year-old man sustained an open total dislocation of the talus with a severe crush wound and impaired circulation to the foot.
(6) "Everyone has been blasted by anonymous figures who crushed the economy.
(7) The main objective of these experiments was to develop and characterize a new experimental model of venous thrombosis, and determine whether a combination of vascular wall damage (crushing with hemostat clamps) and prolonged stasis produced more reproducible clots than prolonged stasis per se.
(8) Despite a glorious career, her Olympic history had been one of crushing disappointment.
(9) In one group of rats, the RGC proteins were labeled 1 week after crushing.
(10) In adrenergic axons NA, DBH-IR and TH-IR accumulated with time after crushing the nerve as described earlier with biochemical techniques.
(11) This is the first reported case, to the best of my knowledge, of disk neovascularization occurring after intravenously injected, crushed, unfiltered, methylphenidate HCl tablets.
(12) An epidemic of abuse with "T's and blues" began in the late 1970's in which pentazocine-Talwin tablets ("T")--and the antihistamine tripelennamine (known as blues) were crushed, dissolved together, filtered, and injected intravenously.
(13) Labeled axons were first detected in the segment of optic nerve lying distal to the crush site 1 week after injury and had extended as far as 2.3 mm beyond the crush site by 60 days postinjury, growing at a rate similar to that at which the collateral branches of developing ganglion cell axons extend into their targets.
(14) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
(15) Freeze-dried crushed cortical bone allografts were implanted into widemouthed three-wall, two-wall, one-wall, combination, and furcation defects.
(16) Previous work from our laboratory had shown that goldfish retinal fragments explanted onto a polylysine substratum 1 to 2 weeks following optic nerve crush exhibit a striking clockwise pattern of neuritic outgrowth.
(17) Thus did Dominic Cummings, former special adviser to Michael Gove , deliver to his prime minister what is, in certain Tory circles, the most crushing of insults.
(18) Isis recently threatened to kill American hostages to avenge the crushing airstrikes in Iraq against militants advancing on Mount Sinjar and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
(19) Addictive onion consumption was prevented by mixing chopped or crushed onions in a total balanced ration.
(20) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.
Trodden
Definition:
(p. p.) of Tread
() p. p. of Tread.
Example Sentences:
(1) His plans for nationalising railways or social care were, for instance, well trodden if decent ground.
(2) Things were not going well, but this was Gerrard’s well-trodden territory.
(3) Acting up, then making nice, is a well-trodden North Korean strategy.
(4) On Sunday morning he returned to such well-trodden themes, using Twitter to say: “There will be a tax on our soon to be strong border of 35% for these companies wanting to sell their product, cars, AC units, etc, back across the border.” This week, his transition team heralded a deal with Carrier, a manufacturer of air-conditioning units which planned to close an Indiana plant and move jobs and manufacturing to Mexico.
(5) Here, instead, we have the well-trodden journey of the celebrity into hell – what has the celebrity learned in its week in reality?
(6) The group first struck international targets when it attacked the UN headquarters in Abuja last year, taking a step on the path trodden by many militant groups which have grafted a global dimension onto their otherwise very local agenda over recent decades.
(7) Southampton stage incredible comeback to beat Liverpool 3-2 Read more Mané will join a well-trodden path of players to leave St Mary’s for Anfield in recent seasons following Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren, Nathaniel Clyne and Rickie Lambert.
(8) The route to Monaco via Belgium is a well-trodden one: once he had dual nationality, the businessman could theoretically renounce his French citizenship and move to the Riviera principality where Belgian nationals – but not French citizens – can live tax-free.
(9) Photograph: Alamy If you aren’t put off by a high density of boutique moustaches and pedantic coffee connoisseurs, Stoneybatter is a worthwhile deviation from Temple Bar, Grafton Street and the other well-trodden tourist zones.
(10) They used successful and well-trodden parliamentary tactics – tabling an Early Day Motion that Friends of the Earth supporters asked MPs to get behind.
(11) The committee has taken a quick turn round the course in the wake of the Mid Staffs hospital kerfuffle – and covers ground that colleague MPs have already trodden, for example in the health committee .
(12) Agüero, who will wear the No16 shirt, made it clear he would not go down the well-trodden route of complaining about the English climate.
(13) You’re back to the land of Road to Wigan Pier.” There is a thin line to be trodden between a vivid description of a subject that might otherwise cause the listener to nod off, and crossing over into exaggeration.
(14) I worked in events previously, which wasn't the most trodden route, but I still had useful experience.
(15) Farage himself has trodden a careful path on immigration in recent years, avoiding the anti-Islam rants of Pearson and arguing there should be more high-skilled immigrants from the Commonwealth.
(16) The chaos had been sparked by Hungary’s decision to shut off its southern border with Serbia, blocking a well-trodden refugee railroad that has brought more than 170,000 refugees into the EU since the start of the year.
(17) Photograph: PA The well-trodden criticism thrown at shows like The Voice and X Factor are whether they uncover anything much beyond technical brilliance and a certain blandness.
(18) He said: "It's been a well-trodden path for the last 15 years or so for young doctors from the UK to come to Australia, work here for a year or two and then go back home, back into the NHS when they are about 30 years old and eventually become a consultant.
(19) Twice each day, we ambled along well-trodden trails through the sand, up and down rocky ridges, passing cacti and sagebrush.
(20) Many of the technical components of DeltaSync's plan are well-trodden territory for engineers.