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UK
/smˈæʃ/
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[ US /ˈsmæʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈsmæʃ/ ]
VERB
-
break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
The window smashed -
damage or destroy as if by violence
The teenager banged up the car of his mother -
hit hard
He smashed a 3-run homer -
break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
Smash a plate - hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
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collide or strike violently and suddenly
The motorcycle smashed into the guard rail -
humiliate or depress completely
She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation
The death of her son smashed her -
reduce to bankruptcy
My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!
The slump in the financial markets smashed him -
overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
The police smashed the drug ring after they were tipped off -
hit violently
She smashed her car against the guard rail
NOUN
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a conspicuous success
that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career
that new Broadway show is a real smasher
the party went with a bang - a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
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a vigorous blow
he got a bang on the head
the sudden knock floored him
he took a bash right in his face -
the act of colliding with something
the fullback's smash into the defensive line
his crash through the window - a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
ADVERB
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with a loud crash
the car went smash through the fence
How To Use smash In A Sentence
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- An iceberg smashes its way to the surface, all sharp angles and ragged edges, rearing over the barely visible remains of a crushed and sinking ship.
- In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door.
- He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.
- Other specialties have undergone relative declines such as orthopedics safer cars and fewer smashed bones. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Another Idea
- Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
- He stated that his van was missing and it was found, smashed into another vehicle, up the street.
- At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
- In May it was burgled and the Victorian stained glass window was smashed.
- We overbalanced and tumbled towards the window, smashing it and falling through.
