Smash
[smæʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles).
(verb.) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over; 'Smash a plate'.
(verb.) overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful); 'The police smashed the drug ring after they were tipped off'.
(verb.) hit hard; 'He smashed a 3-run homer'.
(verb.) collide or strike violently and suddenly; 'The motorcycle smashed into the guard rail'.
(verb.) hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke.
(verb.) hit violently; 'She smashed her car against the guard rail'.
(verb.) break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow; 'The window smashed' .
(adv.) with a loud crash; 'the car went smash through the fence'.
Typist: Vilma--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
(v. i.) To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.
(n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
(n.) Hence, bankruptcy.
Typed by Garrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Crush, mash, dash to pieces, break in pieces.
Typed by Katie
Definition
v.t. to break in pieces violently: to crush: to dash violently.—v.i. to act with crushing force: to be broken to pieces: to be ruined to fail: to dash violently.—n. act of smashing destruction ruin bankruptcy.—ns. Smash′er one who smashes: (slang) one who passes bad money bad money itself: anything great or extraordinary; Smash′ing.—adj. crushing: dashing.—n. Smash′-up a serious smash.
Typist: Sol
Examples
- I had said to Compeyson that I'd smash that face of his, and I swore Lord smash mine! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Then I don't understand,' pursues the Father, 'how even their living beyond their means could bring them to what has been termed a total smash. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Then came the smash, and she stayed on to nurse her lover, while brother Joseph, finding himself pretty snug, stayed on too. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Moore and Helstone are of 'earth's first blood'--no bunglers--no cravens---- A crash--smash--shiver--stopped their whispers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She must smash it, it must be smashed before her ecstasy was consummated, fulfilled for ever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I'll smash you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The words we've smashed 'em rang in his ears. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There were woods that had been taken quickly and not smashed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I wish it had been smashed up when its day was over, not left to preach the beloved past to us. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was like a flask that is smashed to atoms, he seemed to himself that he was all fragments, smashed to bits. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her head had been smashed by a heavy blow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His shoulder was smashed and his head was hurt. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She must smash it, it must be smashed before her ecstasy was consummated, fulfilled for ever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At last I come behind him and hit him on the cheek to turn him round and get a smashing one at him, when I was seen and seized. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- THEN we shall see the hammer used only for smashing, then we shall see it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then he heard Anselmo shoot, the shot smashing an echo back from the gorge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The cavalry charge and the phalanx smashed this great brittle host as a stone smashes a bottle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typed by Dave