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SMASH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A conspicuous success
Example:
the party went with a bang
Synonyms:
bang; hit; smash; smasher; strike
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("smash" is a kind of...):
success (an attainment that is successful)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smash"):
blockbuster; megahit; smash hit (an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel))
sleeper (an unexpected hit)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of colliding with something
Example:
the fullback's smash into the defensive line
Synonyms:
crash; smash
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("smash" is a kind of...):
hit; hitting; striking (the act of contacting one thing with another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smash"):
impaction; impingement (a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
Synonyms:
overhead; smash
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("smash" is a kind of...):
return (a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player)
Derivation:
smash (hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
Synonyms:
smash; smash-up
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("smash" is a kind of...):
collision (an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object)
Domain category:
automotive vehicle; motor vehicle (a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails)
Derivation:
smash (collide or strike violently and suddenly)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A vigorous blow
Example:
he got a bang on the head
Synonyms:
bang; bash; belt; knock; smash
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("smash" is a kind of...):
blow; bump (an impact (as from a collision))
Derivation:
smash (break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over)
smash (hit hard)
smash (damage or destroy as if by violence)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they smash ... he / she / it smashes
Past simple: smashed
Past participle: smashed
-ing form: smashing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
Example:
The window smashed
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "smash" is one way to...):
break; come apart; fall apart; separate; split up (become separated into pieces or fragments)
Verb group:
dash; smash (break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
Example:
Smash a plate
Synonyms:
dash; smash
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "smash" is one way to...):
break (destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments)
Verb group:
smash (break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "smash"):
blast; knock down (shatter as if by explosion)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They smash the glass tubes
Derivation:
smash (a vigorous blow)
smasher (a person who smashes something)
smashing (the act of breaking something into small pieces)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
Example:
The police smashed the drug ring after they were tipped off
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "smash" is one way to...):
demolish; destroy (defeat soundly and humiliatingly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 4
Meaning:
Hit hard
Example:
He smashed a 3-run homer
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "smash" is one way to...):
hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
smash (a vigorous blow)
smasher (a person who smashes something)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Collide or strike violently and suddenly
Example:
The motorcycle smashed into the guard rail
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "smash" is one way to...):
clash; collide (crash together with violent impact)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
smash (a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles))
Sense 6
Meaning:
Hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "smash" is one way to...):
hit (cause to move by striking)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
smash (a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Damage or destroy as if by violence
Example:
The teenager banged up the car of his mother
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "smash" is one way to...):
damage (inflict damage upon)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
smash (a vigorous blow)
smasher (a person who smashes something)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Humiliate or depress completely
Example:
The death of her son smashed her
Synonyms:
crush; smash
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "smash" is one way to...):
abase; chagrin; humble; humiliate; mortify (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 9
Meaning:
Hit violently
Example:
She smashed her car against the guard rail
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "smash" is one way to...):
hit; strike (drive something violently into a location)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 10
Meaning:
Reduce to bankruptcy
Example:
The slump in the financial markets smashed him
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "smash" is one way to...):
impoverish (make poor)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With a loud crash
Example:
the car went smash through the fence
Synonyms:
smash; smashingly
Classified under:
Context examples:
The lock shivered, the wood smashed, the stone flew into five pieces, but the iron clamps still held the door in its position.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Wilson led viciously with his left, but misjudged his distance, receiving a smashing counter on the mark in reply which sent him reeling and gasping to the ropes.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It takes enormous amounts of energy, such as in the extreme environments within Jupiter and Saturn, to smash the atoms with enough force to overcome their natural aversion.
(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
We saw him approach her; and then, ma'am, she yelled and gave a spring, and the next minute she lay smashed on the pavement.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
His head had been smashed to pulp by heavy blows of a sandbag or some such instrument, which had crushed rather than wounded.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He suffered and toiled and sweated and bled, and exulted when his naked knuckles smashed home.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The inner shell is essentially an expanding shock wave, so it may be smashing into the dust grains and obliterating them, or producing an extra heating effect that evaporates the dust.
(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)
One of the latter knocked off the man’s hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The ants use this motion to smack other arthropods, likely stunning them, smashing them against a tunnel wall or pushing them away.
(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
As the material is ejected, it is heated up and smashes into the surrounding interstellar medium.
(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)
