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Smashed   /smæʃt/   Listen
verb
Smash  v. t.  (past & past part. smashed; pres. part. smashing)  
1.
To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. "Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces."
2.
(Lawn Tennis) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke.


Smash  v. i.  To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Smashed" Quotes from Famous Books



... points out that if the soul is really hampered by the body, it is strange that a blow on a man's head should "retard the action of his thoughts." He also remarks that, according to this theory, the "blow has only got to be somewhat harder till the head is smashed altogether, and the man is killed, and then the thoughts are rendered more active than ever." Which, as our old friend ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote
... appallingly close. After the explosion perfect silence—no screams, no noise of crumbling—perfect silence, and yet the explosion seemed still to dominate the air! Ears ached and sang. Something must be done. All theories of safety had been smashed to atoms in the explosion. G.J. dragged Christine along the street, he knew not why. The street was unharmed. Not the slightest trace in it, so far as G.J. could tell in the gloom, of destruction! But where the explosion had been, whether east, west, south or north, he could not guess. Except ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett
... each prisoner, but they inflicted the most terrible punishment for every slight offence. A few days after I went there, a splendid young Canadian boy from Toronto was found dead with the back of his head smashed in. He had been on night shift, and he had not been hurt in a cave-in, for our own boys found him. We asked for an investigation, but we were told to go to work and mind our own business; so we Canadians went on strike. A German who spoke a little English asked us what was the matter, ...
— Into the Jaws of Death • Jack O'Brien
... a look at the chart," Wilkinson said. "When we last looked there was a group of rocks ten miles ahead, and at the rate we are going the Tigress will be smashed into matchwood if she keeps on this ...
— At Aboukir and Acre - A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt • George Alfred Henty
... sign, but not the sole postulate; for we must postulate a complete and genuine democratization of the State and public economy, and a system of education equally accessible to all: only then can we say that the monopoly of class and culture has been smashed. But the cessation of the workless income will show the downfall of the last of class-monopolies, that ...
— The New Society • Walther Rathenau


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