smash

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Police have confirmed two of the dead women were British - and are expected to confirm later this morning the third fatal victim of the smash is also from the UK.

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  1. transitive verb To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter. See Synonyms at break.
  2. transitive verb To throw or dash (something) violently so as to shatter or crush. See Synonyms at crush.
  3. transitive verb To strike with a heavy blow; batter.

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  • But it shall put an end to all the humbug that has been going on...Rolleston will come out with his letter in the same number, and the smash will be awful, but most thoroughly merited These several pieces of work, struck out at different times in response to various impulses, were now combined and re-shaped into "Man's Place in Nature," the first book which was published by him. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
  • While 1987's Three Men and a Baby was a box-office smash, the lesser-known, less-heralded comedy —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Choose Green Link and get the famous item in the game known as the smash ball start beating up one of your of your opponents using the "Triforce Slash" (Final Smash) Save it in your replays look at Link through the whole battle on close up mode
  • Flat shots are dealt with a horizontal swipe, smash, a vertical, and whilst all these moves do make sense on paper, the Wii remote's recognition can be very off at times. —  Cubed3.com News
  • The 1968 adaptation of Neil Simons Broadway smash, about two divorced men rooming together in New York City, is perhaps the quintessential pairing of the two actors. —  Yes Weekly
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

crash ·  stun ·  crush ·  clatter ·  slam ·  peal ·  kick ·  terrific ·  plunge ·  bang ·  split ·  strike

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smash:   smashing ·  smashed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably of imitative origin.

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  1. Not in early use; prob. from Swedish dial. smaska, smack, kiss (cf. smask, a slight explosion, crack, report, smiska, slap), prob. a transposed form of smaksa = Danish smaske, smack with the lips, Low German smaksen, smack with the lips, kiss, orig. prob. ‘smack,’ smite; with the verb-formative s (with transitive sense, as in cleanse, make clean), from the root of smack: see smack, and cf. smatter. Cf Middle High German smatzen, kiss, smack; Middle High German smackezen, German schmatzen, fell a tree, schmatz, a smack: see smack. The word smash has been more or less associated with the different word mash.
  2. from smash, v.
 

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