smash

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter. See Synonyms at break.
2. v. To throw or dash (something) violently so as to shatter or crush. See Synonyms at crush.
3. v. To strike with a heavy blow; batter.
4. v. Sports To hit (a ball or shuttlecock) in a forceful overhand stroke.
5. v. To crush or destroy completely: smashed all resistance.
6. v. To strike or collide suddenly, noisily, and violently: The car smashed into a tree.
7. v. To break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow or collision.
8. v. Sports To hit a ball or shuttlecock in a forceful overhand stroke.
9. v. To be crushed or destroyed.
10. v. To go bankrupt.
11. n. The act or sound of smashing.
12. n. The condition of having been smashed.
13. n. Total defeat or destruction; ruin.
14. n. Financial failure; bankruptcy.
15. n. A collision or crash.
16. n. A drink made of mint, sugar, soda water, and alcoholic liquor, usually brandy.
17. n. A soft drink made of crushed fruit.
18. n. Sports A forceful overhand stroke, as in tennis or badminton.
19. n. Informal A resounding success: The play was a smash on Broadway.
20. adj. Informal Of, relating to, or being a resounding success: a smash hit on Broadway.
21. adv. With a sudden violent crash.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To break in pieces utterly and with violence; dash to pieces; shatter; crush.
2. To render insolvent; bankrupt.
3. To dash violently; fling violently and noisily: as, he smashed it against the wall.
4. In lawn-tennis, to strike with much strength; bat very swiftly.
5. Synonyms Shatter, etc. See dash.
6. To act with a crushing force; produce a crushing or crashing.
7. To be broken or dashed to pieces suddenly and roughly; go to pieces by a violent blow or collision.
8. To be ruined; fail; become insolvent or bankrupt: generally with up.
9. To dash violently: as, the locomotives smashed into each other.
10. To utter base coin.
11. n. A violent dashing or crushing to pieces: as, the lurch of the ship was attended with a great smash of glass and china.
12. n. Destruction; ruin in general; specifically, failure; bankruptcy: as, his business has gone to smash.
13. n. A drink composed of spirit (generally brandy), cut ice, water, sugar, and sprigs of mint: it is like a julep, but served in smaller glasses.
14. n. A disastrous collision, especially on a railroad; a smash-up.
15. To press or make (the folded and sewed sections of a proposed book) of a uniform thickness.
16. n. In lawn-tennis, an overhand volley played hard and fast to prevent, by the speed of the stroke, a return by the opponent.

Wiktionary

1. n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
2. n. UK, colloquial A traffic accident.
3. n. colloquial, entertainment Something very successful.
4. n. tennis A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
5. n. colloquial, archaic bankruptcy
6. v. To break (something brittle) violently.
7. v. To hit extremely hard.
8. v. figuratively To ruin completely and suddenly.
9. v. transitive, figuratively To defeat overwhelmingly.
10. v. US To deform through continuous pressure.
11. v. intransitive To be destroyed by being smashed.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
2. v. (Lawn Tennis) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke.
3. v. To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.
4. n. A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
5. n. colloq. Hence, bankruptcy.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. collide or strike violently and suddenly
2. v. humiliate or depress completely
3. adv. with a loud crash
4. v. damage or destroy as if by violence
5. v. hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
6. v. break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
7. v. overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
8. v. break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
9. n. a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
10. n. a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
11. v. reduce to bankruptcy
12. n. a conspicuous success
13. v. hit violently
14. v. hit hard
15. n. the act of colliding with something
16. n. a vigorous blow