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smash
[ smash ]
verb (used with object)
- to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter:
He smashed the vase against the wall.
- to defeat, disappoint, or disillusion utterly.
- to hit or strike (someone or something) with force.
- to overthrow or destroy something considered as harmful:
They smashed the drug racket.
- to ruin financially:
The depression smashed him.
Synonyms:
- Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis. to hit (a ball or shuttlecock) overhead or overhand with a hard downward motion, causing the shot to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.
verb (used without object)
- to break to pieces from a violent blow or collision.
- to dash with a shattering or crushing force or with great violence; crash (usually followed by against, into, through, etc.).
- to become financially ruined or bankrupt (often followed by up ).
- to flatten and compress the signatures of a book in a press before binding.
noun
- the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
Synonyms:
- the sound of such a smash.
- a blow, hit, or slap.
- a destructive collision, as between automobiles.
- a smashed or shattered condition.
- a process or state of collapse, ruin, or destruction:
the total smash that another war would surely bring.
- financial failure or ruin.
- Informal. smash hit.
- a drink made of brandy, or other liquor, with sugar, water, mint, and ice.
- Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis.
- an overhead or overhand stroke in which the ball or shuttlecock is hit with a hard, downward motion causing it to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.
- a ball hit with such a stroke.
adjective
- of, relating to, or constituting a great success:
That composer has written many smash tunes.
smash
/ æʃ /
verb
- to break into pieces violently and usually noisily
- whenintr, foll by against, through, into, etc to throw or crash (against) vigorously, causing shattering
he smashed the equipment
it smashed against the wall
- tr to hit forcefully and suddenly
- tr tennis squash badminton to hit (the ball) fast and powerfully, esp with an overhead stroke
- tr to defeat or wreck (persons, theories, etc)
- tr to make bankrupt
- intr to collide violently; crash
- introften foll byup to go bankrupt
- smash someone's face in informal.to beat someone severely
noun
- an act, instance, or sound of smashing or the state of being smashed
- a violent collision, esp of vehicles
- a total failure or collapse, as of a business
- tennis squash badminton a fast and powerful overhead stroke
- informal.
- something having popular success
- ( in combination )
smash-hit
- slang.loose change; coins
adverb
- with a smash
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- a· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of smash1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Michael Sozan, a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress, recently co-authored a lengthy report accusing Trump of “smashing constitutional and legal guardrails to build an authoritarian presidency.”
Power completed the gruelling 340-mile route in three days 12 hours and eight minutes, smashing the previous record set by Mimi Anderson by more than three hours.
Labour campaigned at the July general election on a promise to "smash" the criminal people-smuggling gangs after a surge in small boat crossings since 2018.
Donald Trump continues to smash the conventional wisdom, norms, institutions, rule of law and U.S. democracy.
"Unfortunately, sometimes I might cut myself or smash a plate or burn the dinner, so obviously the chaos of my brain displays itself through day-to-day tasks."
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