Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter. See Synonyms at break.
- v. To throw or dash (something) violently so as to shatter or crush. See Synonyms at crush.
- v. To strike with a heavy blow; batter.
- v. Sports To hit (a ball or shuttlecock) in a forceful overhand stroke.
- v. To crush or destroy completely: smashed all resistance.
- v. To strike or collide suddenly, noisily, and violently: The car smashed into a tree.
- v. To break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow or collision.
- v. Sports To hit a ball or shuttlecock in a forceful overhand stroke.
- v. To be crushed or destroyed.
- v. To go bankrupt.
- n. The act or sound of smashing.
- n. The condition of having been smashed.
- n. Total defeat or destruction; ruin.
- n. Financial failure; bankruptcy.
- n. A collision or crash.
- n. A drink made of mint, sugar, soda water, and alcoholic liquor, usually brandy.
- n. A soft drink made of crushed fruit.
- n. Sports A forceful overhand stroke, as in tennis or badminton.
- n. Informal A resounding success: The play was a smash on Broadway.
- adj. Informal Of, relating to, or being a resounding success: a smash hit on Broadway.
- adv. With a sudden violent crash.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To break in pieces utterly and with violence; dash to pieces; shatter; crush.
- To render insolvent; bankrupt.
- To dash violently; fling violently and noisily: as, he smashed it against the wall.
- In lawn-tennis, to strike with much strength; bat very swiftly.
- Synonyms Shatter, etc. See dash.
- To act with a crushing force; produce a crushing or crashing.
- To be broken or dashed to pieces suddenly and roughly; go to pieces by a violent blow or collision.
- To be ruined; fail; become insolvent or bankrupt: generally with up.
- To dash violently: as, the locomotives smashed into each other.
- To utter base coin.
- n. A violent dashing or crushing to pieces: as, the lurch of the ship was attended with a great smash of glass and china.
- n. Destruction; ruin in general; specifically, failure; bankruptcy: as, his business has gone to smash.
- 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.
- n. A disastrous collision, especially on a railroad; a smash-up.
- To press or make (the folded and sewed sections of a proposed book) of a uniform thickness.
- 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
- n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- n. UK, colloquial A traffic accident.
- n. colloquial, entertainment Something very successful.
- n. tennis A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- n. colloquial, archaic bankruptcy
- v. To break (something brittle) violently.
- v. To hit extremely hard.
- v. figuratively To ruin completely and suddenly.
- v. transitive, figuratively To defeat overwhelmingly.
- v. US To deform through continuous pressure.
- v. intransitive To be destroyed by being smashed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
- v. (Lawn Tennis) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke.
- v. 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. colloq. Hence, bankruptcy.
WordNet 3.0
- v. collide or strike violently and suddenly
- v. humiliate or depress completely
- adv. with a loud crash
- v. damage or destroy as if by violence
- v. hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- v. break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
- v. overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
- v. break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- n. a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- n. a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- v. reduce to bankruptcy
- n. a conspicuous success
- v. hit violently
- v. hit hard
- n. the act of colliding with something
- n. a vigorous blow
Etymologies
- Onomatopoeic (Wiktionary)
- Probably of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It bursts like a rainstorm, sheet upon sheet, _smash, smash, smash_, with one or two more of the heavier shells punctuating the shower of the lighter ones.”
“Indeed, the Israelis are saying that they need certainly several more days to what they call smash Hezbollah's capabilities.”
“Pharis: They put me first, promoted me first from weaving to what they call a smash hand.”
“They put me first, promoted me first from weaving to what they call a smash hand.”
“I'm letting go of it as fast as I can, and a smash is the quickest way to let go.”
“And he took no time to once again smash neoliberal dogma; "there can be sustainable social and economic growth side by side with a functional democratic process".”
The Huffington Post: Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
“All of that only to have the GOP and mostly McCain smash my loyalty into a million tiny little pieces.”
NY-23 Hoffman/Scozzafava: What Jim said. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“He was a terrific learner and now is a regular at the annual "pumkin smash".”
“One smash from the club was sufficient to convince him that the white god knew how to handle it, and he was too wise to fight the inevitable.”
“This South Korean box-office smash is also a laugh-out-loud comedy and a surprisingly angry political satire.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘smash’.
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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gangster
random gangster lingo and street slang with extra absurdities.
( open list, randomness )
related:
http://www....swagga, chinga, slams, blitzy, earf, manor, code name, rekkid, weight, feather, kong, swisher and 323 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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Undo
A list of terms that denote separating one thing from another, or deconstructing a thing into its parts or to a former state. E.g., untie, divorce, unscramble.
untie, divorce, unscramble, disunite, disjoin, undo, separate, disassemble, uncouple, unhitch, disassociate, disaffiliate and 185 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
abduct, abducting, abductor, Achaea, Achaean, Achilles, advise, Aegean, Aegean Sea, Aegina, aegis, Aeneas and 713 more...
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Periodic Table of Cake
I should have known better, but once I got started on this, I realized it’s basically the same thing as Ruzuzu’s list “Let them eat cake”, with less cake.
cheese, ague, almond, alum, pan, ash, beef, tea, Baddeley, daikon, yellow, zebra and 44 more...
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I am : violent
Destructive verbs that speed up entropy. (Still working on definition of what I want; may add adjectives later.)
destroy, wreck, thrash, trash, beat up, annihilate, exterminate, disembowel, eviscerate, disintegrate, explode, bomb and 41 more...
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sex
sex euphemisms
make it rain, taste the rainbow, bumpin, magic, twatsville, twerkin, yankin, smang, smash, bang, boof, knock
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Phonestheme: -ASH, the Action Movie
Grateful credit to http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crash, smash, dash, bash, brash, trash, rash, lash, thrash, cash, clash, flash and 7 more...
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Violent Verbs
Words that have violent connotations.
pummel, grip, behead, punch, bash, slash, grab, break, smash, rip, chop, hack and 2 more...
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Pseudo-edge
The middle-aged corporate marketer's version of a teen lexicon.
ultimate, extreme, chillin, totally, bling, karma, stoke, smooth, flav, punch, ish, hype and 46 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
Tweets
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