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Smash

verb

(past & past part. smashed; pres. part. smashing)

1.

Hit hard. Synonyms: blast, boom, nail.

2.

Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over. Synonym: dash.

3.

Reduce to bankruptcy. Synonyms: bankrupt, break, ruin. "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"

4.

Hit violently.

5.

Humiliate or depress completely. Synonyms: crush, demolish. "The death of her son smashed her"

6.

Damage or destroy as if by violence. Synonyms: bang up, smash up.

7.

Hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke.

8.

Collide or strike violently and suddenly.

9.

Overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful).

10.

Break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow.

noun

1.

A vigorous blow. Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, knock. "He took a bash right in his face" , "He got a bang on the head"

2.

A serious collision (especially of motor vehicles). Synonym: smash-up.

3.

A hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head. Synonym: overhead.

4.

The act of colliding with something. Synonym: crash. "The fullback's smash into the defensive line"

5.

A conspicuous success. Synonyms: bang, hit, smasher, strike. "That new Broadway show is a real smasher" , "The party went with a bang"

adverb

1.

With a loud crash. Synonym: smashingly.

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"Smash" Quotes from Famous Books

... cats would still be sitting on their tails and we should be paying our debts with Austrian coin. By God! They rose with clubs and ploughshares, and when the others sent a new army, they attacked it again and again, until there was none left. We must smash all the iron and other idols and serve their servant with the arrows of Tell. And when new ones are erected, we must hack those too to bits. The whole harvest must be ours. We don't want to spill our blood for the wives and the children of others. We must plague capitalism until it gets tired ...

— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various

... problem, for example. For years Germany has recognised the necessity of a rapid increase of population, if a nation is to smash rivals in industry and war. Not for a moment during this struggle has Germany lost sight of this fact. Many times have I heard in the Fatherland that the assurance of milk to children is not entirely for sentimental but also for practical reasons. Official attempts are ...

— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin

... Jackson, slowly. "It is there; it pants, it runs, it rolls; it is strong and alive; it would smash you if you didn't look out; but I'll be hanged if it is yet as real to me as . . . as the other thing . . ...

— Tales of Unrest • Joseph Conrad

... amount of elasticity through which the shock of the recoil is absorbed. It is only through the use of such a bed that a mortar can be fired from the deck of a vessel. Without such, protection, the shock would smash through the deck and might send the craft ...

— Abraham Lincoln • George Haven Putnam

... three-and-twenty ships which can cope at all with some ninety of the Spaniards: but we have dash, and daring, and the inspiration of utter need. Now, or never, must the mighty struggle be ended. We worried them off Portland; we must rend them in pieces now; and in rushes ship after ship, to smash her broadsides through and through the wooden castles, "sometimes not a pike's length asunder," and then out again to re-load, and give place meanwhile to another. The smaller are fighting with all sails set; the few larger, who, once in, are careless about coming out again, fight ...

— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

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