transitive. To burst or smash (something) in; to force a passage through. Obsolete.

transitive. To make a breach in, break open or into, break, shatter. Also intransitive with reflexive meaning.

transferred trans. To burst in, crush inwards. Chiefly with in.

transitive (causal.) To smash or ‘bash’ in.

To smash or break in by blows, to batter in (cf. sense 17).