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Smash   /smæʃ/   Listen
Smash

verb
(past & past part. smashed; pres. part. smashing)
1.
Hit hard.  Synonyms: blast, boom, nail.
2.
Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over.  Synonym: dash.
3.
Reduce to bankruptcy.  Synonyms: bankrupt, break, ruin.  "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
4.
Hit violently.
5.
Humiliate or depress completely.  Synonyms: crush, demolish.  "The death of her son smashed her"
6.
Damage or destroy as if by violence.  Synonyms: bang up, smash up.
7.
Hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke.
8.
Collide or strike violently and suddenly.
9.
Overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful).
10.
Break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow.
noun
1.
A vigorous blow.  Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, knock.  "He took a bash right in his face" , "He got a bang on the head"
2.
A serious collision (especially of motor vehicles).  Synonym: smash-up.
3.
A hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head.  Synonym: overhead.
4.
The act of colliding with something.  Synonym: crash.  "The fullback's smash into the defensive line"
5.
A conspicuous success.  Synonyms: bang, hit, smasher, strike.  "That new Broadway show is a real smasher" , "The party went with a bang"
adverb
1.
With a loud crash.  Synonym: smashingly.



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"Smash" Quotes from Famous Books



... going to stand dumb as an oyster and let somebody land a blow over my vest pocket hard enough to smash that watch, Mrs. McGregor?" interrogated the giant. "Pray, where would I be ...
— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett
... you mean to insult me?" Bobbie slapped the muscles of his arm. "Look, little girl. Hard as steel. No match for that in strength. I can do more than smash a few cobwebs. You'll see something that'll make you open ...
— The Adventures of Maya the Bee • Waldemar Bonsels
... you don't, or you wouldn't be kow-towing to this royalty stuff, and you would hand a bottle to that Don Roughhouse or whatever his name is, right on his classic brow, with a classic smash. You ought to see how an American girl would treat one of these big bullies! Well, what about my danger? It never worries me when I know where and when and how to expect it. Whatever you tell will ...
— The Ghost Breaker - A Novel Based Upon the Play • Charles Goddard
... "Here's a smash!" I said to myself grimly, at the corner of Hamilton Place, and it flashed through my brain, with a mixture of self-contempt and pity, that my last thought before the end would be one of sordid satisfaction because a fortnight ...
— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... champagne, and lobster-salad, and mulli—what's his name?—first chop; and the women dress in silks and velvets and feathers, no end of swells! and they say it is regular stoopid to pinch like that, for no one will believe we ain't going to smash while she is such ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge


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