'Crush' suggests more damage than 'squash'. If a car drives over your foot, this will crush the bones in your foot and cause injury. You would use 'crush', not 'squash', if you needed surgery, for example. 'Squash' doesn't suggest damage. If you squash something, you compact it to fit into a smaller space. For example, if you borrow your brother's trainers and they're a size too small, you could squeeze or squash your feet into them. If you crush something, the change is often permanent. You can crush apples to make juice, or crush nuts into tiny pieces to sprinkle on a dessert. If you squash something, it can often return to its original shape. If you squash a football, it may be out of shape and lose some air, but you can usually blow it up again and it'll be fine. The texture of marshmallows is 'squashy.' 'Squish' is very informal, mainly used in conversation with children. The connotation of 'squish' is something very soft or even semi-liquid. If you crush a bug, this suggests cracking a hard little body. If you squish a bug, this suggests blood, guts and a sticky mess. That's the difference. 'Squoosh' is a made-up word, and fairly unusual.

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Hi Kevin, You 'crush' things like a can, or a giant machine might 'crush' a car and make it into a cube. When I think of the word 'crush' I get a loud metal sound come to mind. 'Squash' is the most common word for a bug. 'Squish' could be used as well, but it's less common and mostly used for children. Another idea that comes to mind for 'squish' is a sponge... but again, I've mostly heard it when talking to children. For body parts and fragile objects, etc., we usually just use the word broke. Unless you're saying that you literally took it in your hands and closed your hands to make it smaller or broken. Hope this helps Jesse