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SMASHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of breaking something into small pieces
Synonyms:
shattering; smashing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("smashing" is a kind of...):
break; breakage; breaking (the act of breaking something)
Derivation:
smash (break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very good
Example:
we had a grand old time
Synonyms:
bang-up; bully; corking; cracking; dandy; great; groovy; keen; neat; nifty; not bad; old; peachy; slap-up; smashing; swell
Classified under:
Similar:
good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb smash
Context examples:
It so chanced that, as the battle went against his man, my eyes stole round very often to note the expression upon Sir Lothian Hume’s face, for I knew how fearlessly he had laid the odds, and I understood that his fortunes as well as his champion were going down before the smashing blows of the old bruiser.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He swung the club smartly, stopping the rush midway and smashing White Fang down upon the ground.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The hard obstruction of the cave-wall, the sharp nudge of his mother's nose, the smashing stroke of her paw, the hunger unappeased of several famines, had borne in upon him that all was not freedom in the world, that to life there were limitations and restraints.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Here a squat and brawny god held sway, with much noise, hurling trunks and boxes about, dragging them in through the door and tossing them into the piles, or flinging them out of the door, smashing and crashing, to other gods who awaited them.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
