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smash

  [smash]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.
2. to defeat, disappoint, or disillusion utterly.
3. to hit or strike (someone or something) with force.
4. to overthrow or destroy something considered as harmful: They smashed the drug racket.
5. to ruin financially: The depression smashed him.
6. Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis. to hit (a ball or shuttlecock) overhead or overhand with a hard downward motion, causing the shot to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.
–verb (used without object)
7. to break to pieces from a violent blow or collision.
8. to dash with a shattering or crushing force or with great violence; crash (usually fol. by against, into, through, etc.).
9. to become financially ruined or bankrupt (often fol. by up).
10. to flatten and compress the signatures of a book in a press before binding.
–noun
11. the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
12. the sound of such a smash.
13. a blow, hit, or slap.
14. a destructive collision, as between automobiles.
15. a smashed or shattered condition.
16. a process or state of collapse, ruin, or destruction: the total smash that another war would surely bring.
17. financial failure or ruin.
18. Informal. smash hit.
19. a drink made of brandy, or other liquor, with sugar, water, mint, and ice.
20. Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis.
a. an overhead or overhand stroke in which the ball or shuttlecock is hit with a hard, downward motion causing it to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.
b. a ball hit with such a stroke.
–adjective
21. of, relating to, or constituting a great success: That composer has written many smash tunes.
Origin:
1690–1700; perh. b. smack 2 and mash

Related forms:
smash⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See break. 5. bankrupt. 11. crash.
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smash   (smāsh)   
v.   smashed, smash·ing, smash·es

v.   tr.
  1. To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter. See Synonyms at break.
    1. To throw or dash (something) violently so as to shatter or crush. See Synonyms at crush.
    2. To strike with a heavy blow; batter.
  3. Sports To hit (a ball or shuttlecock) in a forceful overhand stroke.
  4. To crush or destroy completely: smashed all resistance.
v.   intr.
  1. To strike or collide suddenly, noisily, and violently: The car smashed into a tree.
  2. To break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow or collision.
  3. Sports To hit a ball or shuttlecock in a forceful overhand stroke.
  4. To be crushed or destroyed.
  5. To go bankrupt.
n.  
    1. The act or sound of smashing.
    2. The condition of having been smashed.
    3. Total defeat or destruction; ruin.
    4. Financial failure; bankruptcy.
    5. A drink made of mint, sugar, soda water, and alcoholic liquor, usually brandy.
    6. A soft drink made of crushed fruit.
    1. Total defeat or destruction; ruin.
    2. Financial failure; bankruptcy.
    3. A drink made of mint, sugar, soda water, and alcoholic liquor, usually brandy.
    4. A soft drink made of crushed fruit.
  3. A collision or crash.
    1. A drink made of mint, sugar, soda water, and alcoholic liquor, usually brandy.
    2. A soft drink made of crushed fruit.
  5. Sports A forceful overhand stroke, as in tennis or badminton.
  6. 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.

[Probably of imitative origin.]
smash'er n.
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Smash

Smash\, v. t. (Lawn Tennis) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke.

Smash

Smash\ (sm[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smashed (sm[a^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Smashing.] [Cf. Sw. smisk a blow, stroke, smiska to strike, dial. Sw. smaske to kiss with a noise, and E. smack a loud kiss, a slap.] To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces. --Burke.

Smash

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

Smash

Smash\, n. 1. A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.

2. Hence, bankruptcy. [Colloq.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : smash
Spanish: romper, quebrar, hacer pedazos, arruinar,
German: zertrümmern,
Japanese: こなごなにする
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smash  (v.)
1778, "break to pieces," earlier "kick downstairs" (c.1700), probably of imitative origin (cf. smack, mash). Smashed "drunk" is slang from 1962. Smash-up "collision" is recorded from 1856; smash-and-grab is first attested 1927. Smashing "pleasing, sensational" is from 1911.

smash  (n.)
1839, "failure, financial collapse," from smash (v.). Tennis sense is from 1882. Meaning "great success" is from 1923 ("Variety" headline, Oct. 16, in ref. to Broadway productions of "The Fool" and "The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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