crushing vs eye-opening

crushing

adj
  • Devastatingly disheartening. 

  • That crushes; overwhelming. 

noun
  • The act of subjecting sugarcane to crushing. 

  • The action of the verb to crush. 

  • Crushed material. 

  • A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim. 

eye-opening

adj
  • Very startling or shocking; engaging a person's full attention. 

How often have the words crushing and eye-opening occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )