Definition of smash in English:

smash

verb smaʃsmæʃ

1with object Violently break (something) into pieces.
the thief smashed a window to get into the car
gone are the days when he smashed up hotels
Example sentencesExamples
- They were rescued when firemen put ladders up to the bedroom window, smashed the glass and guided the trio to safety.
- Keith Moon would throw his drumsticks into the audience and Pete Townshend would smash his guitar to pieces.
- The offender smashed a plate glass window to enter the premises.
- Barry takes out his frustration by breaking and smashing things or randomly bursting into tears.
- In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows.
- They then smashed their playstation, broke the kitchen table in bits and ripped up a load of magazines and threw the pages all over the ground.
- After seeing a hand at the bedroom window he smashed the glass and reached inside, briefly touching someone's fingers.
- He gets aggressive and smashes things and shouts a lot.
- Nothing was taken but thieves smashed a driver's-side window to gain entry to the car.
- Schoolchildren have been left devastated after their new Wendy house was smashed up by yobs.
- But, after cutting through a wire fence and then smashing a window the thieves stole a box containing the pictures, two generators and a disabled ramp.
- And earlier this month New Road Methodist Chapel in Heys Lane, Blackburn, fell victim to vandals who smashed stained glass windows.
- A crowd of youths ran riot on The Inch estate, engaging in running street battles, smashing windows and breaking into cars.
- Thieves had attempted to break through the front door of building before smashing a stained glass window.
- Less than 90 minutes later, thieves smashed a window at Colchester Optical Centre in Red Lion Yard and snatched designer glasses from a display.
- He said the thieves had smashed the windows and shutters, and damaged pictures on walls inside the unit.
- In the past year windows have been smashed, practice nets damaged and the clubhouse daubed with graffiti.
- The first few of them came into our garden, right to our front door, where they picked up a large filled flowerpot, took it a few yards up the road and smashed it to pieces.
- After realising there was no money or valuables to be taken, they smashed another stained glass window.
- He got his ladder and climbed up to the window where Sarah had smashed the glass.
Synonyms
break, break to pieces, smash to smithereens, shatter
1. 1.1no object Be violently broken into pieces; shatter.
  the glass ball smashed instantly on the pavement
  Example sentencesExamples
  Modern safety standards require shatterproof glass, which won't smash into sharp shards - but older furniture may well have plain glass.
  He whacked the nail so hard on the head, it smashed into pieces.
  Instead, they all toppled over the side of the counter, smashing into billions of pieces onto the floor.
  The plate smashed into three pieces as he flung it at the television.
  He leapt to another roof, just as a large rock smashed into pieces on the ground where he was.
  He reached over and caught it before it smashed into a million pieces without spilling a drop.
  When the plate is smashed into hundreds of pieces, we do not find that one piece contains the bird's wing, and another piece the bird's beak.
  Before I realise it the glass has left my hand and reaches the middle of the room, smashing to pieces on the floor.
  Anyway as I was doing it I knocked a glass lamp from a small table and it smashed to tiny pieces on the parquet floor, it made a huge bang.
  His large, meaty hand grabbed the lamp and he threw it at the wall, causing it to smash into a million pieces.
  Something was thrown at the ground and smashed into pieces.
  The glass shattered as it smashed against the floorboards.
  The mirror smashed, sending pieces of tiny glass in every direction and littering the ground.
  And then the back panel of the frame fell out and the glass fell onto the floor and smashed into a million pieces.
  Calissa fell to the floor, her glass of wine smashing into a hundred pieces.
  It smashed on the hard floor, and I stepped back to avoid the broken pieces on my bare feet.
  The mirror shattered instantly, smashing to the ground with a thunderous crash.
  He jumped with the shock of the noise, dropping his torch to the floor where the lens and bulb smashed on the hard floor with a single spark of power.
  Stine slammed an already small piece of tile quite harshly onto the board causing it to smash into billions of pieces.
  She dropped her glass on the floor watching it as it smashed into 1,000 pieces.
  Synonyms
  break, break to pieces, smash to smithereens, shatter
2. 1.2 Violently knock down or crush inwards.
  soldiers smashed down doors
  Example sentencesExamples
  Twice in the past five years, in different parts of Britain, I have been in a gay pub when the window has been smashed in, on one occasion showering me and my drink with broken glass.
  Officers smashed down the door of a flat in Westbourne Grove, Southend, at around 2am after blocking the street with patrol cars.
  He did a war dance down the track as he had Trevor White caught at first slip by Byas and another jig followed when he smashed down Iain Sutcliffe's stumps to end the day.
  They then smashed down a shutter but were unable to gain access to the safe because it was time-locked and they were forced to leave empty-handed.
  When Gardaí returned to the vehicle, three of its windows had been smashed in with rocks.
  Synonyms
  crash into, collide with, be in collision with, hit, strike, ram, smack into, slam into, bang into, plough into, meet head-on, run into, drive into, bump into, crack into/against
  dash against
  North American impact
3. 1.3 Crash and severely damage (a vehicle)
  my Land Rover's been smashed up
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thousands of pounds of damage has been inflicted on her property - her car has been smashed up more than a dozen times.
  Police and tax officials watched stunned as a white van man smashed up his vehicle on a York street rather than hand it over to road tax enforcers.
  She says that the insurance inspector has evidence that all the times that he's smashed up the car over the last year haven't been accidents.
  Synonyms
  crash, wreck
  British write off
  British informal prang
  North American informal total
4. 1.4 Hit or attack (someone) very violently.
  Donald smashed him over the head
  Example sentencesExamples
  A struggle ensued and he was smashed over the head with a revolver.
  I also learned how to smash someone's face in with a bar, and the correct boots to wear to kick, severely damage and vandalize private property.
  Then the man turns to Six as Six smashes him in the face with his gun.
  Lads were taking turns to give him a right going over, smashing him in the face with weapons and stamping on him.
  He pulled his gun and smashed her in the head with it.
  He was pretty horrible so I hope that I smashed him over the head with something heavy, grabbed my car keys and made a swift getaway, but you never know with dreams.
  I would love to smash her in the face with a mallet.
  Another man then appeared and smashed him across his left arm with an iron cosh, before dragging him out and throwing him to the ground.
  Pavel smashed him in the face with the back of his hand.
  The Celtic defender appeared to smash Paul Fenwick across the face in a first-half clash missed by referee Alan Freeland but captured by Sky TV cameras.
  He threatened to smash me in the face with the grill.
  Sometimes they would use tricks like bringing you gently to the mat and smashing you down at the last moment.
  They were waiting for us and smashed us into the ground.
  She grabbed his arm and swung him through the air, smashing him back down into the ground again.
  They respond by kicking him and smashing him repeatedly from behind with an iron pipe until he is on the restraining conveyor belt that carries him to the stunner.
  Last week, two officers who worked with Rhodes testified that they saw Rhodes drive Zhao's head into the pavement and smash her in the side of the head with his knee.
  In May a wind sail mast smashed her in the face, leaving her traumatised and minus some teeth.
  No sooner had these words passed his lips when a figure wearing a black cloak smashed him full-force into the snow and raised a dagger above his throat.
  She was left with black eyes after a fellow inmate smashed her in the face with a plastic mug.
  He smashed him across the face and then when he was down starting kicking him.
  Synonyms
  hit, strike, thump, punch, cuff, smack, thwack
  informal whack, belt, bash, biff, bop, clout, wallop, swipe, sock, lam, crown, whomp, deck, floor
  British informal stick one on, slosh, dot
  North American informal boff, bust, slug, whale
  Australian/New Zealand informal dong, quilt
  literary smite, swinge
5. 1.5 Easily or comprehensively beat (a record)
  he smashed the course record
  Example sentencesExamples
  Young songsters from York and North Yorkshire have smashed the Guinness World Record for the largest ever simultaneous sing.
  A Mid-Essex care Trust has smashed Government targets by getting a waiting list for assessments down to zero.
  Moseley had earlier set the clubhouse target after smashing the course record by two shots with a flawless 63.
  BOX office records have been smashed during the first week of Ulverston's Charter Festival.
  After smashing the £600,000 target a year ahead of schedule, the appeal launched its second phase to reach £1m.
  It struck both Mr Chan's and Miss Holden's cars before smashing through the crash barrier, plunging 60 ft to the bank of the Weaver Navigation canal below.
  It had been a devastating blow: until that moment she had been more than five days ahead of schedule and on course to smash the record.
  Without last weekend's appalling weather, he reckoned that all attendance records would have been smashed.
  A bare-footed Zola Budd smashed the 5, 000m record at Crystal Palace athletics stadium
  Which US adventurer smashed the round-the-world sailing record by six days?
  Murphy also smashed the course record at Shrigley on his way to winning the club championship and he has often proved unbeatable on the Macclesfield course.
  A rugby league superkid from York is in line to smash a British try-scoring record set by Wigan Warriors star Simon Haughton.
  He started in the red and ran accordingly, smashing the course record despite carrying 62 kg.
  Dairy Crest has raised £190,000 in just five months, well and truly smashing their initial annual target of £50,000.
  He smashed a long standing record o 29: 78 that Cape Prince held since about 1995.
  The numbers smashed its 100,000 minimum target for lottery funding and compare favourably with Scotland's top attractions.
  After he smashed the Bolton Association record for runs in a season, Bazid Khan is now looking to break into the Pakistan cricket team.
  We had suspected that all records must have been smashed on the night and this was confirmed when the betting figures were revealed.
  TWO sisters suffering from the same genetic illness could be on the road to a cure this year, thanks to fundraisers who are within a whisker of smashing a £160,000 target.
  The Midlander, who smashed the course record with a 61 in the first round, is attached to the club and his caddie, Roy Robinson, is a member of Hopwood.
6. 1.6 Completely defeat, destroy, or foil (something regarded as hostile or dangerous)
  a deliberate attempt to smash the trade union movement
  Example sentencesExamples
  I know that a lot of people in Yorkshire will always blame Nottinghamshire for the outcome but the man who smashed the greatest union this country has ever seen was Arthur Scargill.
  The Howard government was involved in a conspiracy with stevedoring companies to smash the Maritime Union of Australia several years ago.
  Synonyms
  destroy, wreck, ruin, shatter, dash, crush, devastate, demolish, blast, blight, wipe out, overturn, torpedo, scotch
  burst someone's bubble
  informal put the kibosh on, banjax, do for, blow a hole in, nix, put paid to, queer
  British informal scupper, dish
  archaic bring to naught
7. 1.7dated, informal no object (of a business) go bankrupt; fail financially.
  a firm that had smashed for so tremendous an amount
2no object, with adverbial of direction Move so as to hit or collide with something with great force and impact.
their plane smashed into a mountainside
Example sentencesExamples
- Fierce headwinds driving against currents produced steep-fronted waves that smashed into the fleet as it struggled to reach the finish line.
- Frank Davies, aged 79, was showered with flying masonry as he lay in his bed when the Mazda smashed into the bedroom wall of the bungalow.
- At Galveston, at the storm's northern edge, waves smashed over the 17-foot seawall that guards the city from the gulf.
- Sobirin, 36, was sleeping at around 8 p.m. when the strong current smashed through the walls of his home.
- Her arm stopped her head from smashing into the hard pavement.
- In fact, we're going to take just a little bit of a look down the beach; you can see the waves smashing into the beach.
- It then smashed head on into a tree, breaking it in half, before ploughing into some railings.
- She shot down the road backwards before smashing into the wall of a front garden five doors down the street.
- She and her husband and two children escaped with cuts and bruises after a wave smashed through the windscreen of their van.
- More than 30 people were taken to hospital yesterday after a crowded underground train smashed into a tunnel wall when it derailed in central London.
- The man stepped around a corner, and Ralier barreled after him, smashing into the wall as he turned.
- As he fell face-first his mouth smashed against the hard corner of the table, chipping a front tooth.
- As the waves smashed against the pillars of the floating barge, I noticed the driftwood that was totally at the mercy of the current.
- The fight was over when his face smashed into the hard floor.
- Sheids got a nice surge and floated effortlessly in and around the back of the jump off rock, scrambling up onto it before the next wave smashed into it sending a huge plume of spray into the air.
- Rain is slashing slantwise, mixing with spray from waves smashing into jetty walls.
- Look at the sheer force of the waves as they smashed into the coast line just feet from the road.
- A couple who flew into Manchester Airport told of their miracle escape after a 20 ft tidal wave smashed into their Sri Lankan hotel.
- He told her Jamie, who had been visiting the resort with his Thai wife Noi, had been taken to hospital with broken ribs after the waves smashed into his beachside hut.
- An elderly couple caught up in the Asian tsunami while holidaying in Sri Lanka have spoken about their terror as the giant killer waves smashed into their luxury resort.
Synonyms
collide with, hit, run into, bang into, crash into, smash into, smack into, crack into, ram into, be in collision with, plough into
1. 2.1with object and adverbial of direction (in sport) strike (the ball) or score (a goal, run, etc.) with great force.
  he smashed home the Tranmere winner
  Example sentencesExamples
  The third goal was scored by Charlotte Bolan, who smashed the ball in after Nicola Rawlinson's shot had been blocked by a defender.
  Close to half time Silsden took the lead when defender, Katherine Wust smashed the ball into the top of the net from a corner.
  O'Neill bagged the first of his five goals when smashing the ball to the back of the Roanmore net with a fine effort after receiving a pass from Michael King and this goal came after nine minutes.
  Then Kahn makes a wonder save with his legs as Roberto Carlos's low cross is deflected to Ronaldo, who twists on a sixpence and smashes the ball towards the goal.
  Ten minutes later Mick Ward turned his defender on the edge of the penalty box and smashed the ball into the top corner.
2. 2.2with object (in tennis, badminton, and similar sports) strike (the ball or shuttlecock) downwards with a hard overarm volley.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Someone passed me the ball, I jumped up as high as possible and smashed the ball as hard as I could.
  Woosnam is at the top of a sport that has changed enormously since he first played, a determined farmer's boy who loved to smash the ball as hard as he could.
  Lucas smashed his squash ball hard against the wall with his racket.

noun smaʃsmæʃ

1An act or sound of something smashing.
he heard the smash of glass
Example sentencesExamples
- There was a fast drop in temperature, a creaking sound echoed throughout the room, and then a smash.
- Her neighbour heard a smash and ran out to see the boys running away from his car, the window was smashed.
- Miss Ul Haq said she heard a smash, Mr Derbyshire ran into the pub and Syed was in shock.
- The truck did a quick roll and landed with a crashing smash onto its side.
- Any humour in the retreat was abruptly shattered by the loud smash of a plate glass window by an excitable ram who was wilfully battering his head into it.
- Then, I heard the smash of someone breaking the small pane of glass next to the door.
- The sudden smash of something glass forewarned he was returning past the bathroom.
- Miss Ul Haq said Syed put his hands up to protect himself, she heard a smash and Mr Derbsyhire ran into the pub.
- Shrugging Antonio started to walk by the room when he heard the smash of something that sounded like glass.
- Victor braced himself, ducked and leaped to the ogre's side as the hammer crashed into the ground with a loud smash.
Synonyms
breaking, shattering, crashing, crash
1. 1.1British A violent collision or impact between vehicles.
  a car smash
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was involved in a horrific smash, crashing into two cars which had already been involved in an accident.
  A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after two people died and a third was seriously injured in a car smash.
  The worst crash in the Western Bay in 17 months claimed the lives of three men in a head-on smash near Te Puke yesterday.
  There is going to be a smash; it's too late to avoid it; let the other lot stay in the driver's seat for now.
  There was a smash on the motorway this morning and so there was a lengthy delay.
  And if you think about it, what makes up the cost of motor premiums is the cost of fixing smashes, and the cost of parts keeps going up because a lot of them are imported, the exchange rate impacts on that.
  Police said the car was forced on to its side by the impact of the smash, but the driver made off when the vehicle fell back onto four wheels.
  Two men had a miracle escape after surviving a smash which turned a car into a fireball
  A driver has died after a horror smash in which his car careered off a quiet country road.
  In a separate accident two women were fighting for their lives in hospital after their car collided with another vehicle in a head-on smash in Rochdale.
  A Chapmanslade motorist lost control of his van in a snowstorm moments before he was killed in a head-on smash, an inquest heard on Monday.
  The father-of-two was killed on June 10 in a smash with another vehicle when he was driving to Denver airport.
  Neither of the friends was wearing a seat belt and they could have been watching a dashboard DVD system when the smash took place, an inquest heard.
  The accident rate on the Ipswich Motorway is so bad that motorists using the road have up to a 50/50 chance of being delayed because of a smash on any given day.
  Crashes can often be predicted long before the eventual smash.
  This Friday we go straight to the train smash in New South Wales.
  A call has been made for a complete overhaul of school transport safety after more than 50 children were involved in a horror smash on Friday afternoon.
  A woman lies trapped in an upturned station wagon, numb from the impact of a car smash.
  Friends of a teenager who died in a car smash have called on the driver, who disappeared after the accident, to give himself up.
  If we had capsized we would have had to survive the impact of a car smash, get out, and then get to the boat.
  Synonyms
  crash, multiple crash, car crash, collision, multiple collision, accident, car accident, road accident, traffic accident, road traffic accident, bump
  British RTA
  North American wreck
  informal pile-up, smash-up
  British informal prang, shunt
2. 1.2 A violent blow.
  a forearm smash
  Example sentencesExamples
  Playoffs hockey can be blunt, like a forearm smash to the chin.
  Players get launched into the air, take forearm smashes, and land with such force, gamers will grimace for weeks at the wreck of bodies left in its wake.
  A forearm smash from Richard Morales earned him an instant red.
  The Duke took this as a good sign and attempted to walk around the Marvel once more and was met for his troubles with a forearm smash to the chest that almost knocked him off his feet.
  So we may look forward once again to the forearm smash being deployed at the line-out by the master of that particular black art.
3. 1.3 A stroke in tennis, badminton, and similar sports in which the ball or shuttlecock is hit downwards with a hard overarm volley.
  Example sentencesExamples
  A smash in badminton is more like a punch in boxing than a smash in tennis.
  In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.
  After some long serving from Christine Dunne and a great smash from Aodainn Crowe, the sides were level at 10-10.
  Henman attacks Sanchez's serve from the outset and gets the first break of the match with a chip and charge, a deft volley and an impressive smash.
  The second-youngest of IG Made Sumandra and Asni Anggraini's four children said that she preferred using rallies and lobs to make up for her powerless smashes in winning a point.
2informal A very successful song, film, show, or performer.
a box office smash
Example sentencesExamples
- The film was a smash hit, garnering nine Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture.
- Felim is best known for his part as actor and musician on the smash hit film ‘The Commitments’.
- The brothers danced together in the smash Broadway revue Eubie! in 1978 and again on the big screen in Cotton Club.
- It has been a dance-floor smash ever since Tall Paul dropped the track last year at London's super club Turnmills.
- The ad, for John Smith's bitter, sees Kay return to his table with a tray of drinks in a packed nightclub as the crooner performs his smash hit Release Me.
- A smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Head Games transfers to the Oval House Theatre, from Wednesday, February 12.
- The film was a smash hit and the dancers have high hopes that the ballet version of the drama will repeat that success in China.
- There's a new movie based on a hit Broadway play that was based on an earlier movie about a Broadway play that's supposed to flop, but it's an unexpected smash.
- Gerry Rafferty - he of the 1970s smash Baker Street - is selling up in the town before he has even moved in.
- Though the film was not a smash hit during its theatrical run, I believe it will garner a vast and appreciative audience on DVD.
- When he auditioned he did not realise until later that the backing track he had recorded at the audition was the smash hit Lola.
- The smash hit disco film is to finish a 17-week run at Studio 1 and 2.
- Two years later, the show was a smash; it introduced dance crazes like the Bunny Hop, and Horn had received an award from TV Guide.
- That the film has been a smash hit in its homeland Sweden only proves that its characterisations are rock solid.
- The London production of The Producers - starring Nathan Lane on short notice - seems to be a smash.
- Supported by innovative marketing, the film was a smash hit.
- The show was such a smash in London that Mendes revived it in Manhattan in 1998 where it became a phenomenon.
- Various songs could make huge singles, but ‘Girl’ in particular, a rolling guitar rave as ode to summer, looks like a viable smash.
- Jonathan Antin is the face of the smash Bravo series ‘Blow Out’ and the name behind a line of hair care products.
- Buster Poindexter released his cover version three years later, which went on to become an international smash.
Synonyms
great success, sensation, sell-out, triumph
French succès fou
informal hit, smash hit, winner, crowd-puller, knockout, wow, biggie
3A mixture of spirits (typically brandy) with flavoured water and ice.
Example sentencesExamples
- Have a smash of the brandy before it's all gone.
4dated, informal A bankruptcy or financial failure.
Example sentencesExamples
- The consequence, as you might surmise, was an impressive series of financial smashes in my early twenties.

adverbsmaʃ

With a sudden, violent shattering.
they were together for an instant, and then smash it was all gone

Phrases

go to smash

dated, informal Be ruined or destroyed.
he sees the community going to smash
Example sentencesExamples
- To paraphrase the poem, ‘When faith and reason clash, let reason go to smash!’

Origin

Early 18th century (as a noun): probably imitative, representing a blend of words such as smack, smite with bash, mash, etc..

Rhymes

abash, ash, Ashe, bash, brash, cache, calash, cash, clash, crash, dash, encash, flash, gnash, hash, lash, mash, Nash, panache, pash, plash, rash, sash, slash, soutache, splash, stash, thrash, trash

Definition of smash in US English:

smash

verbsmæʃsmaSH

1with object Violently break (something) into pieces.
the thief smashed a window to get into the car
gone are the days when he smashed up hotels
Example sentencesExamples
- Keith Moon would throw his drumsticks into the audience and Pete Townshend would smash his guitar to pieces.
- A crowd of youths ran riot on The Inch estate, engaging in running street battles, smashing windows and breaking into cars.
- The first few of them came into our garden, right to our front door, where they picked up a large filled flowerpot, took it a few yards up the road and smashed it to pieces.
- After realising there was no money or valuables to be taken, they smashed another stained glass window.
- They were rescued when firemen put ladders up to the bedroom window, smashed the glass and guided the trio to safety.
- He said the thieves had smashed the windows and shutters, and damaged pictures on walls inside the unit.
- The offender smashed a plate glass window to enter the premises.
- He got his ladder and climbed up to the window where Sarah had smashed the glass.
- Thieves had attempted to break through the front door of building before smashing a stained glass window.
- In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows.
- Nothing was taken but thieves smashed a driver's-side window to gain entry to the car.
- After seeing a hand at the bedroom window he smashed the glass and reached inside, briefly touching someone's fingers.
- In the past year windows have been smashed, practice nets damaged and the clubhouse daubed with graffiti.
- Barry takes out his frustration by breaking and smashing things or randomly bursting into tears.
- Less than 90 minutes later, thieves smashed a window at Colchester Optical Centre in Red Lion Yard and snatched designer glasses from a display.
- They then smashed their playstation, broke the kitchen table in bits and ripped up a load of magazines and threw the pages all over the ground.
- He gets aggressive and smashes things and shouts a lot.
- Schoolchildren have been left devastated after their new Wendy house was smashed up by yobs.
- But, after cutting through a wire fence and then smashing a window the thieves stole a box containing the pictures, two generators and a disabled ramp.
- And earlier this month New Road Methodist Chapel in Heys Lane, Blackburn, fell victim to vandals who smashed stained glass windows.
Synonyms
break, break to pieces, smash to smithereens, shatter
1. 1.1no object Be violently broken into pieces; shatter.
  the glass ball smashed instantly on the pavement
  Example sentencesExamples
  And then the back panel of the frame fell out and the glass fell onto the floor and smashed into a million pieces.
  Something was thrown at the ground and smashed into pieces.
  It smashed on the hard floor, and I stepped back to avoid the broken pieces on my bare feet.
  He whacked the nail so hard on the head, it smashed into pieces.
  The plate smashed into three pieces as he flung it at the television.
  Calissa fell to the floor, her glass of wine smashing into a hundred pieces.
  He leapt to another roof, just as a large rock smashed into pieces on the ground where he was.
  The glass shattered as it smashed against the floorboards.
  Instead, they all toppled over the side of the counter, smashing into billions of pieces onto the floor.
  He reached over and caught it before it smashed into a million pieces without spilling a drop.
  The mirror smashed, sending pieces of tiny glass in every direction and littering the ground.
  Anyway as I was doing it I knocked a glass lamp from a small table and it smashed to tiny pieces on the parquet floor, it made a huge bang.
  When the plate is smashed into hundreds of pieces, we do not find that one piece contains the bird's wing, and another piece the bird's beak.
  Modern safety standards require shatterproof glass, which won't smash into sharp shards - but older furniture may well have plain glass.
  The mirror shattered instantly, smashing to the ground with a thunderous crash.
  Before I realise it the glass has left my hand and reaches the middle of the room, smashing to pieces on the floor.
  He jumped with the shock of the noise, dropping his torch to the floor where the lens and bulb smashed on the hard floor with a single spark of power.
  His large, meaty hand grabbed the lamp and he threw it at the wall, causing it to smash into a million pieces.
  She dropped her glass on the floor watching it as it smashed into 1,000 pieces.
  Stine slammed an already small piece of tile quite harshly onto the board causing it to smash into billions of pieces.
  Synonyms
  break, break to pieces, smash to smithereens, shatter
2. 1.2 Violently knock down or crush inward.
  soldiers smashed down doors
  Example sentencesExamples
  Officers smashed down the door of a flat in Westbourne Grove, Southend, at around 2am after blocking the street with patrol cars.
  They then smashed down a shutter but were unable to gain access to the safe because it was time-locked and they were forced to leave empty-handed.
  When Gardaí returned to the vehicle, three of its windows had been smashed in with rocks.
  Twice in the past five years, in different parts of Britain, I have been in a gay pub when the window has been smashed in, on one occasion showering me and my drink with broken glass.
  He did a war dance down the track as he had Trevor White caught at first slip by Byas and another jig followed when he smashed down Iain Sutcliffe's stumps to end the day.
  Synonyms
  crash into, collide with, be in collision with, hit, strike, ram, smack into, slam into, bang into, plough into, meet head-on, run into, drive into, bump into, crack against, crack into
3. 1.3 Crash and severely damage (a vehicle)
  my Volvo's been smashed up
  Example sentencesExamples
  She says that the insurance inspector has evidence that all the times that he's smashed up the car over the last year haven't been accidents.
  Thousands of pounds of damage has been inflicted on her property - her car has been smashed up more than a dozen times.
  Police and tax officials watched stunned as a white van man smashed up his vehicle on a York street rather than hand it over to road tax enforcers.
  Synonyms
  crash, wreck
4. 1.4 Hit or attack (someone) very violently.
  Donald smashed him over the head
  Example sentencesExamples
  Lads were taking turns to give him a right going over, smashing him in the face with weapons and stamping on him.
  In May a wind sail mast smashed her in the face, leaving her traumatised and minus some teeth.
  The Celtic defender appeared to smash Paul Fenwick across the face in a first-half clash missed by referee Alan Freeland but captured by Sky TV cameras.
  She was left with black eyes after a fellow inmate smashed her in the face with a plastic mug.
  Sometimes they would use tricks like bringing you gently to the mat and smashing you down at the last moment.
  No sooner had these words passed his lips when a figure wearing a black cloak smashed him full-force into the snow and raised a dagger above his throat.
  I also learned how to smash someone's face in with a bar, and the correct boots to wear to kick, severely damage and vandalize private property.
  Another man then appeared and smashed him across his left arm with an iron cosh, before dragging him out and throwing him to the ground.
  He threatened to smash me in the face with the grill.
  Pavel smashed him in the face with the back of his hand.
  He smashed him across the face and then when he was down starting kicking him.
  They respond by kicking him and smashing him repeatedly from behind with an iron pipe until he is on the restraining conveyor belt that carries him to the stunner.
  They were waiting for us and smashed us into the ground.
  Then the man turns to Six as Six smashes him in the face with his gun.
  He pulled his gun and smashed her in the head with it.
  She grabbed his arm and swung him through the air, smashing him back down into the ground again.
  Last week, two officers who worked with Rhodes testified that they saw Rhodes drive Zhao's head into the pavement and smash her in the side of the head with his knee.
  A struggle ensued and he was smashed over the head with a revolver.
  He was pretty horrible so I hope that I smashed him over the head with something heavy, grabbed my car keys and made a swift getaway, but you never know with dreams.
  I would love to smash her in the face with a mallet.
  Synonyms
  hit, strike, thump, punch, cuff, smack, thwack
5. 1.5 Easily or comprehensively beat (a record)
  he smashed the course record
  Example sentencesExamples
  The numbers smashed its 100,000 minimum target for lottery funding and compare favourably with Scotland's top attractions.
  Which US adventurer smashed the round-the-world sailing record by six days?
  Young songsters from York and North Yorkshire have smashed the Guinness World Record for the largest ever simultaneous sing.
  TWO sisters suffering from the same genetic illness could be on the road to a cure this year, thanks to fundraisers who are within a whisker of smashing a £160,000 target.
  Dairy Crest has raised £190,000 in just five months, well and truly smashing their initial annual target of £50,000.
  Murphy also smashed the course record at Shrigley on his way to winning the club championship and he has often proved unbeatable on the Macclesfield course.
  A rugby league superkid from York is in line to smash a British try-scoring record set by Wigan Warriors star Simon Haughton.
  Moseley had earlier set the clubhouse target after smashing the course record by two shots with a flawless 63.
  A bare-footed Zola Budd smashed the 5, 000m record at Crystal Palace athletics stadium
  Without last weekend's appalling weather, he reckoned that all attendance records would have been smashed.
  A Mid-Essex care Trust has smashed Government targets by getting a waiting list for assessments down to zero.
  BOX office records have been smashed during the first week of Ulverston's Charter Festival.
  We had suspected that all records must have been smashed on the night and this was confirmed when the betting figures were revealed.
  It had been a devastating blow: until that moment she had been more than five days ahead of schedule and on course to smash the record.
  It struck both Mr Chan's and Miss Holden's cars before smashing through the crash barrier, plunging 60 ft to the bank of the Weaver Navigation canal below.
  After smashing the £600,000 target a year ahead of schedule, the appeal launched its second phase to reach £1m.
  The Midlander, who smashed the course record with a 61 in the first round, is attached to the club and his caddie, Roy Robinson, is a member of Hopwood.
  He started in the red and ran accordingly, smashing the course record despite carrying 62 kg.
  He smashed a long standing record o 29: 78 that Cape Prince held since about 1995.
  After he smashed the Bolton Association record for runs in a season, Bazid Khan is now looking to break into the Pakistan cricket team.
6. 1.6 Completely defeat, destroy, or foil (something regarded as hostile or dangerous)
  a deliberate attempt to smash the union movement
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Howard government was involved in a conspiracy with stevedoring companies to smash the Maritime Union of Australia several years ago.
  I know that a lot of people in Yorkshire will always blame Nottinghamshire for the outcome but the man who smashed the greatest union this country has ever seen was Arthur Scargill.
  Synonyms
  destroy, wreck, ruin, shatter, dash, crush, devastate, demolish, blast, blight, wipe out, overturn, torpedo, scotch
2no object, with adverbial of direction Move so as to hit or collide with something with great force and impact.
their plane smashed into a mountainside
Example sentencesExamples
- A couple who flew into Manchester Airport told of their miracle escape after a 20 ft tidal wave smashed into their Sri Lankan hotel.
- Look at the sheer force of the waves as they smashed into the coast line just feet from the road.
- Sobirin, 36, was sleeping at around 8 p.m. when the strong current smashed through the walls of his home.
- The man stepped around a corner, and Ralier barreled after him, smashing into the wall as he turned.
- Sheids got a nice surge and floated effortlessly in and around the back of the jump off rock, scrambling up onto it before the next wave smashed into it sending a huge plume of spray into the air.
- Frank Davies, aged 79, was showered with flying masonry as he lay in his bed when the Mazda smashed into the bedroom wall of the bungalow.
- He told her Jamie, who had been visiting the resort with his Thai wife Noi, had been taken to hospital with broken ribs after the waves smashed into his beachside hut.
- In fact, we're going to take just a little bit of a look down the beach; you can see the waves smashing into the beach.
- As the waves smashed against the pillars of the floating barge, I noticed the driftwood that was totally at the mercy of the current.
- It then smashed head on into a tree, breaking it in half, before ploughing into some railings.
- At Galveston, at the storm's northern edge, waves smashed over the 17-foot seawall that guards the city from the gulf.
- She and her husband and two children escaped with cuts and bruises after a wave smashed through the windscreen of their van.
- She shot down the road backwards before smashing into the wall of a front garden five doors down the street.
- Her arm stopped her head from smashing into the hard pavement.
- Fierce headwinds driving against currents produced steep-fronted waves that smashed into the fleet as it struggled to reach the finish line.
- Rain is slashing slantwise, mixing with spray from waves smashing into jetty walls.
- More than 30 people were taken to hospital yesterday after a crowded underground train smashed into a tunnel wall when it derailed in central London.
- The fight was over when his face smashed into the hard floor.
- As he fell face-first his mouth smashed against the hard corner of the table, chipping a front tooth.
- An elderly couple caught up in the Asian tsunami while holidaying in Sri Lanka have spoken about their terror as the giant killer waves smashed into their luxury resort.
Synonyms
collide with, hit, run into, bang into, crash into, smash into, smack into, crack into, ram into, be in collision with, plough into
1. 2.1with object and adverbial of direction (in sports) strike (the ball) or score (a goal, run, etc.) with great force.
  he smashed that one into the bleachers for another two-run homer
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ten minutes later Mick Ward turned his defender on the edge of the penalty box and smashed the ball into the top corner.
  O'Neill bagged the first of his five goals when smashing the ball to the back of the Roanmore net with a fine effort after receiving a pass from Michael King and this goal came after nine minutes.
  The third goal was scored by Charlotte Bolan, who smashed the ball in after Nicola Rawlinson's shot had been blocked by a defender.
  Then Kahn makes a wonder save with his legs as Roberto Carlos's low cross is deflected to Ronaldo, who twists on a sixpence and smashes the ball towards the goal.
  Close to half time Silsden took the lead when defender, Katherine Wust smashed the ball into the top of the net from a corner.
2. 2.2with object (in tennis, badminton, and similar sports) strike (the ball or shuttlecock) downward with a hard overhand stroke.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Someone passed me the ball, I jumped up as high as possible and smashed the ball as hard as I could.
  Woosnam is at the top of a sport that has changed enormously since he first played, a determined farmer's boy who loved to smash the ball as hard as he could.
  Lucas smashed his squash ball hard against the wall with his racket.

nounsmæʃsmaSH

1An act or sound of something smashing.
he heard the smash of glass
Example sentencesExamples
- Miss Ul Haq said Syed put his hands up to protect himself, she heard a smash and Mr Derbsyhire ran into the pub.
- Then, I heard the smash of someone breaking the small pane of glass next to the door.
- Any humour in the retreat was abruptly shattered by the loud smash of a plate glass window by an excitable ram who was wilfully battering his head into it.
- There was a fast drop in temperature, a creaking sound echoed throughout the room, and then a smash.
- The sudden smash of something glass forewarned he was returning past the bathroom.
- Miss Ul Haq said she heard a smash, Mr Derbyshire ran into the pub and Syed was in shock.
- Shrugging Antonio started to walk by the room when he heard the smash of something that sounded like glass.
- The truck did a quick roll and landed with a crashing smash onto its side.
- Victor braced himself, ducked and leaped to the ogre's side as the hammer crashed into the ground with a loud smash.
- Her neighbour heard a smash and ran out to see the boys running away from his car, the window was smashed.
Synonyms
breaking, shattering, crashing, crash
1. 1.1British A violent collision or impact between vehicles.
  a car smash
  Example sentencesExamples
  And if you think about it, what makes up the cost of motor premiums is the cost of fixing smashes, and the cost of parts keeps going up because a lot of them are imported, the exchange rate impacts on that.
  Neither of the friends was wearing a seat belt and they could have been watching a dashboard DVD system when the smash took place, an inquest heard.
  She was involved in a horrific smash, crashing into two cars which had already been involved in an accident.
  The father-of-two was killed on June 10 in a smash with another vehicle when he was driving to Denver airport.
  A driver has died after a horror smash in which his car careered off a quiet country road.
  If we had capsized we would have had to survive the impact of a car smash, get out, and then get to the boat.
  The worst crash in the Western Bay in 17 months claimed the lives of three men in a head-on smash near Te Puke yesterday.
  There is going to be a smash; it's too late to avoid it; let the other lot stay in the driver's seat for now.
  Two men had a miracle escape after surviving a smash which turned a car into a fireball
  The accident rate on the Ipswich Motorway is so bad that motorists using the road have up to a 50/50 chance of being delayed because of a smash on any given day.
  Police said the car was forced on to its side by the impact of the smash, but the driver made off when the vehicle fell back onto four wheels.
  A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after two people died and a third was seriously injured in a car smash.
  This Friday we go straight to the train smash in New South Wales.
  In a separate accident two women were fighting for their lives in hospital after their car collided with another vehicle in a head-on smash in Rochdale.
  A woman lies trapped in an upturned station wagon, numb from the impact of a car smash.
  There was a smash on the motorway this morning and so there was a lengthy delay.
  Friends of a teenager who died in a car smash have called on the driver, who disappeared after the accident, to give himself up.
  Crashes can often be predicted long before the eventual smash.
  A Chapmanslade motorist lost control of his van in a snowstorm moments before he was killed in a head-on smash, an inquest heard on Monday.
  A call has been made for a complete overhaul of school transport safety after more than 50 children were involved in a horror smash on Friday afternoon.
  Synonyms
  crash, multiple crash, car crash, collision, multiple collision, accident, car accident, road accident, traffic accident, road traffic accident, bump
2. 1.2 A violent blow.
  a forearm smash
  Example sentencesExamples
  Playoffs hockey can be blunt, like a forearm smash to the chin.
  Players get launched into the air, take forearm smashes, and land with such force, gamers will grimace for weeks at the wreck of bodies left in its wake.
  A forearm smash from Richard Morales earned him an instant red.
  So we may look forward once again to the forearm smash being deployed at the line-out by the master of that particular black art.
  The Duke took this as a good sign and attempted to walk around the Marvel once more and was met for his troubles with a forearm smash to the chest that almost knocked him off his feet.
3. 1.3 A stroke in tennis, badminton, and similar sports in which the ball is hit downward with a hard overhand volley.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The second-youngest of IG Made Sumandra and Asni Anggraini's four children said that she preferred using rallies and lobs to make up for her powerless smashes in winning a point.
  A smash in badminton is more like a punch in boxing than a smash in tennis.
  Henman attacks Sanchez's serve from the outset and gets the first break of the match with a chip and charge, a deft volley and an impressive smash.
  In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.
  After some long serving from Christine Dunne and a great smash from Aodainn Crowe, the sides were level at 10-10.
2informal A very successful song, film, show, or performer.
a box-office smash
Example sentencesExamples
- Though the film was not a smash hit during its theatrical run, I believe it will garner a vast and appreciative audience on DVD.
- Felim is best known for his part as actor and musician on the smash hit film ‘The Commitments’.
- The brothers danced together in the smash Broadway revue Eubie! in 1978 and again on the big screen in Cotton Club.
- The film was a smash hit and the dancers have high hopes that the ballet version of the drama will repeat that success in China.
- Gerry Rafferty - he of the 1970s smash Baker Street - is selling up in the town before he has even moved in.
- A smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Head Games transfers to the Oval House Theatre, from Wednesday, February 12.
- When he auditioned he did not realise until later that the backing track he had recorded at the audition was the smash hit Lola.
- Supported by innovative marketing, the film was a smash hit.
- The ad, for John Smith's bitter, sees Kay return to his table with a tray of drinks in a packed nightclub as the crooner performs his smash hit Release Me.
- It has been a dance-floor smash ever since Tall Paul dropped the track last year at London's super club Turnmills.
- The film was a smash hit, garnering nine Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture.
- There's a new movie based on a hit Broadway play that was based on an earlier movie about a Broadway play that's supposed to flop, but it's an unexpected smash.
- Jonathan Antin is the face of the smash Bravo series ‘Blow Out’ and the name behind a line of hair care products.
- Various songs could make huge singles, but ‘Girl’ in particular, a rolling guitar rave as ode to summer, looks like a viable smash.
- That the film has been a smash hit in its homeland Sweden only proves that its characterisations are rock solid.
- Buster Poindexter released his cover version three years later, which went on to become an international smash.
- Two years later, the show was a smash; it introduced dance crazes like the Bunny Hop, and Horn had received an award from TV Guide.
- The London production of The Producers - starring Nathan Lane on short notice - seems to be a smash.
- The smash hit disco film is to finish a 17-week run at Studio 1 and 2.
- The show was such a smash in London that Mendes revived it in Manhattan in 1998 where it became a phenomenon.
Synonyms
great success, sensation, sell-out, triumph
3A mixture of liquors (typically brandy) with flavored water and ice.
Example sentencesExamples
- Have a smash of the brandy before it's all gone.
4dated, informal A bankruptcy or financial failure.
Example sentencesExamples
- The consequence, as you might surmise, was an impressive series of financial smashes in my early twenties.

Origin

Early 18th century (as a noun): probably imitative, representing a blend of words such as smack, smite with bash, mash, etc..

单词	smash
释义	Definition of smash in English: smash verb smaʃsmæʃ 1with object Violently break (something) into pieces. the thief smashed a window to get into the car gone are the days when he smashed up hotels Example sentencesExamples They were rescued when firemen put ladders up to the bedroom window, smashed the glass and guided the trio to safety. Keith Moon would throw his drumsticks into the audience and Pete Townshend would smash his guitar to pieces. The offender smashed a plate glass window to enter the premises. Barry takes out his frustration by breaking and smashing things or randomly bursting into tears. In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows. They then smashed their playstation, broke the kitchen table in bits and ripped up a load of magazines and threw the pages all over the ground. After seeing a hand at the bedroom window he smashed the glass and reached inside, briefly touching someone's fingers. He gets aggressive and smashes things and shouts a lot. Nothing was taken but thieves smashed a driver's-side window to gain entry to the car. Schoolchildren have been left devastated after their new Wendy house was smashed up by yobs. But, after cutting through a wire fence and then smashing a window the thieves stole a box containing the pictures, two generators and a disabled ramp. And earlier this month New Road Methodist Chapel in Heys Lane, Blackburn, fell victim to vandals who smashed stained glass windows. A crowd of youths ran riot on The Inch estate, engaging in running street battles, smashing windows and breaking into cars. Thieves had attempted to break through the front door of building before smashing a stained glass window. Less than 90 minutes later, thieves smashed a window at Colchester Optical Centre in Red Lion Yard and snatched designer glasses from a display. He said the thieves had smashed the windows and shutters, and damaged pictures on walls inside the unit. In the past year windows have been smashed, practice nets damaged and the clubhouse daubed with graffiti. The first few of them came into our garden, right to our front door, where they picked up a large filled flowerpot, took it a few yards up the road and smashed it to pieces. After realising there was no money or valuables to be taken, they smashed another stained glass window. He got his ladder and climbed up to the window where Sarah had smashed the glass. Synonyms break, break to pieces, smash to smithereens, shatter 1.1no object Be violently broken into pieces; shatter. the glass ball smashed instantly on the pavement Example sentencesExamples Modern safety standards require shatterproof glass, which won't smash into sharp shards - but older furniture may well have plain glass. He whacked the nail so hard on the head, it smashed into pieces. Instead, they all toppled over the side of the counter, smashing into billions of pieces onto the floor. The plate smashed into three pieces as he flung it at the television. He leapt to another roof, just as a large rock smashed into pieces on the ground where he was. He reached over and caught it before it smashed into a million pieces without spilling a drop. When the plate is smashed into hundreds of pieces, we do not find that one piece contains the bird's wing, and another piece the bird's beak. Before I realise it the glass has left my hand and reaches the middle of the room, smashing to pieces on the floor. Anyway as I was doing it I knocked a glass lamp from a small table and it smashed to tiny pieces on the parquet floor, it made a huge bang. His large, meaty hand grabbed the lamp and he threw it at the wall, causing it to smash into a million pieces. Something was thrown at the ground and smashed into pieces. The glass shattered as it smashed against the floorboards. The mirror smashed, sending pieces of tiny glass in every direction and littering the ground. And then the back panel of the frame fell out and the glass fell onto the floor and smashed into a million pieces. Calissa fell to the floor, her glass of wine smashing into a hundred pieces. It smashed on the hard floor, and I stepped back to avoid the broken pieces on my bare feet. The mirror shattered instantly, smashing to the ground with a thunderous crash. He jumped with the shock of the noise, dropping his torch to the floor where the lens and bulb smashed on the hard floor with a single spark of power. Stine slammed an already small piece of tile quite harshly onto the board causing it to smash into billions of pieces. She dropped her glass on the floor watching it as it smashed into 1,000 pieces. Synonyms break, break to pieces, smash to smithereens, shatter 1.2 Violently knock down or crush inwards. soldiers smashed down doors Example sentencesExamples Twice in the past five years, in different parts of Britain, I have been in a gay pub when the window has been smashed in, on one occasion showering me and my drink with broken glass. Officers smashed down the door of a flat in Westbourne Grove, Southend, at around 2am after blocking the street with patrol cars. He did a war dance down the track as he had Trevor White caught at first slip by Byas and another jig followed when he smashed down Iain Sutcliffe's stumps to end the day. They then smashed down a shutter but were unable to gain access to the safe because it was time-locked and they were forced to leave empty-handed. When Gardaí returned to the vehicle, three of its windows had been smashed in with rocks. Synonyms crash into, collide with, be in collision with, hit, strike, ram, smack into, slam into, bang into, plough into, meet head-on, run into, drive into, bump into, crack into/against dash against North American impact 1.3 Crash and severely damage (a vehicle) my Land Rover's been smashed up Example sentencesExamples Thousands of pounds of damage has been inflicted on her property - her car has been smashed up more than a dozen times. Police and tax officials watched stunned as a white van man smashed up his vehicle on a York street rather than hand it over to road tax enforcers. She says that the insurance inspector has evidence that all the times that he's smashed up the car over the last year haven't been accidents. Synonyms crash, wreck British write off British informal prang North American informal total 1.4 Hit or attack (someone) very violently. Donald smashed him over the head Example sentencesExamples A struggle ensued and he was smashed over the head with a revolver. I also learned how to smash someone's face in with a bar, and the correct boots to wear to kick, severely damage and vandalize private property. Then the man turns to Six as Six smashes him in the face with his gun. Lads were taking turns to give him a right going over, smashing him in the face with weapons and stamping on him. He pulled his gun and smashed her in the head with it. He was pretty horrible so I hope that I smashed him over the head with something heavy, grabbed my car keys and made a swift getaway, but you never know with dreams. I would love to smash her in the face with a mallet. Another man then appeared and smashed him across his left arm with an iron cosh, before dragging him out and throwing him to the ground. Pavel smashed him in the face with the back of his hand. The Celtic defender appeared to smash Paul Fenwick across the face in a first-half clash missed by referee Alan Freeland but captured by Sky TV cameras. He threatened to smash me in the face with the grill. Sometimes they would use tricks like bringing you gently to the mat and smashing you down at the last moment. They were waiting for us and smashed us into the ground. She grabbed his arm and swung him through the air, smashing him back down into the ground again. They respond by kicking him and smashing him repeatedly from behind with an iron pipe until he is on the restraining conveyor belt that carries him to the stunner. Last week, two officers who worked with Rhodes testified that they saw Rhodes drive Zhao's head into the pavement and smash her in the side of the head with his knee. In May a wind sail mast smashed her in the face, leaving her traumatised and minus some teeth. No sooner had these words passed his lips when a figure wearing a black cloak smashed him full-force into the snow and raised a dagger above his throat. She was left with black eyes after a fellow inmate smashed her in the face with a plastic mug. He smashed him across the face and then when he was down starting kicking him. Synonyms hit, strike, thump, punch, cuff, smack, thwack informal whack, belt, bash, biff, bop, clout, wallop, swipe, sock, lam, crown, whomp, deck, floor British informal stick one on, slosh, dot North American informal boff, bust, slug, whale Australian/New Zealand informal dong, quilt literary smite, swinge 1.5 Easily or comprehensively beat (a record) he smashed the course record Example sentencesExamples Young songsters from York and North Yorkshire have smashed the Guinness World Record for the largest ever simultaneous sing. A Mid-Essex care Trust has smashed Government targets by getting a waiting list for assessments down to zero. Moseley had earlier set the clubhouse target after smashing the course record by two shots with a flawless 63. BOX office records have been smashed during the first week of Ulverston's Charter Festival. After smashing the £600,000 target a year ahead of schedule, the appeal launched its second phase to reach £1m. It struck both Mr Chan's and Miss Holden's cars before smashing through the crash barrier, plunging 60 ft to the bank of the Weaver Navigation canal below. It had been a devastating blow: until that moment she had been more than five days ahead of schedule and on course to smash the record. Without last weekend's appalling weather, he reckoned that all attendance records would have been smashed. A bare-footed Zola Budd smashed the 5, 000m record at Crystal Palace athletics stadium Which US adventurer smashed the round-the-world sailing record by six days? Murphy also smashed the course record at Shrigley on his way to winning the club championship and he has often proved unbeatable on the Macclesfield course. A rugby league superkid from York is in line to smash a British try-scoring record set by Wigan Warriors star Simon Haughton. He started in the red and ran accordingly, smashing the course record despite carrying 62 kg. Dairy Crest has raised £190,000 in just five months, well and truly smashing their initial annual target of £50,000. He smashed a long standing record o 29: 78 that Cape Prince held since about 1995. The numbers smashed its 100,000 minimum target for lottery funding and compare favourably with Scotland's top attractions. After he smashed the Bolton Association record for runs in a season, Bazid Khan is now looking to break into the Pakistan cricket team. We had suspected that all records must have been smashed on the night and this was confirmed when the betting figures were revealed. TWO sisters suffering from the same genetic illness could be on the road to a cure this year, thanks to fundraisers who are within a whisker of smashing a £160,000 target. The Midlander, who smashed the course record with a 61 in the first round, is attached to the club and his caddie, Roy Robinson, is a member of Hopwood. 1.6 Completely defeat, destroy, or foil (something regarded as hostile or dangerous) a deliberate attempt to smash the trade union movement Example sentencesExamples I know that a lot of people in Yorkshire will always blame Nottinghamshire for the outcome but the man who smashed the greatest union this country has ever seen was Arthur Scargill. The Howard government was involved in a conspiracy with stevedoring companies to smash the Maritime Union of Australia several years ago. Synonyms destroy, wreck, ruin, shatter, dash, crush, devastate, demolish, blast, blight, wipe out, overturn, torpedo, scotch burst someone's bubble informal put the kibosh on, banjax, do for, blow a hole in, nix, put paid to, queer British informal scupper, dish archaic bring to naught 1.7dated, informal no object (of a business) go bankrupt; fail financially. a firm that had smashed for so tremendous an amount 2no object, with adverbial of direction Move so as to hit or collide with something with great force and impact. their plane smashed into a mountainside Example sentencesExamples Fierce headwinds driving against currents produced steep-fronted waves that smashed into the fleet as it struggled to reach the finish line. Frank Davies, aged 79, was showered with flying masonry as he lay in his bed when the Mazda smashed into the bedroom wall of the bungalow. At Galveston, at the storm's northern edge, waves smashed over the 17-foot seawall that guards the city from the gulf. Sobirin, 36, was sleeping at around 8 p.m. when the strong current smashed through the walls of his home. Her arm stopped her head from smashing into the hard pavement. In fact, we're going to take just a little bit of a look down the beach; you can see the waves smashing into the beach. It then smashed head on into a tree, breaking it in half, before ploughing into some railings. She shot down the road backwards before smashing into the wall of a front garden five doors down the street. She and her husband and two children escaped with cuts and bruises after a wave smashed through the windscreen of their van. More than 30 people were taken to hospital yesterday after a crowded underground train smashed into a tunnel wall when it derailed in central London. The man stepped around a corner, and Ralier barreled after him, smashing into the wall as he turned. As he fell face-first his mouth smashed against the hard corner of the table, chipping a front tooth. As the waves smashed against the pillars of the floating barge, I noticed the driftwood that was totally at the mercy of the current. The fight was over when his face smashed into the hard floor. Sheids got a nice surge and floated effortlessly in and around the back of the jump off rock, scrambling up onto it before the next wave smashed into it sending a huge plume of spray into the air. Rain is slashing slantwise, mixing with spray from waves smashing into jetty walls. Look at the sheer force of the waves as they smashed into the coast line just feet from the road. A couple who flew into Manchester Airport told of their miracle escape after a 20 ft tidal wave smashed into their Sri Lankan hotel. He told her Jamie, who had been visiting the resort with his Thai wife Noi, had been taken to hospital with broken ribs after the waves smashed into his beachside hut. An elderly couple caught up in the Asian tsunami while holidaying in Sri Lanka have spoken about their terror as the giant killer waves smashed into their luxury resort. Synonyms collide with, hit, run into, bang into, crash into, smash into, smack into, crack into, ram into, be in collision with, plough into 2.1with object and adverbial of direction (in sport) strike (the ball) or score (a goal, run, etc.) with great force. he smashed home the Tranmere winner Example sentencesExamples The third goal was scored by Charlotte Bolan, who smashed the ball in after Nicola Rawlinson's shot had been blocked by a defender. Close to half time Silsden took the lead when defender, Katherine Wust smashed the ball into the top of the net from a corner. O'Neill bagged the first of his five goals when smashing the ball to the back of the Roanmore net with a fine effort after receiving a pass from Michael King and this goal came after nine minutes. Then Kahn makes a wonder save with his legs as Roberto Carlos's low cross is deflected to Ronaldo, who twists on a sixpence and smashes the ball towards the goal. Ten minutes later Mick Ward turned his defender on the edge of the penalty box and smashed the ball into the top corner. 2.2with object (in tennis, badminton, and similar sports) strike (the ball or shuttlecock) downwards with a hard overarm volley. Example sentencesExamples Someone passed me the ball, I jumped up as high as possible and smashed the ball as hard as I could. Woosnam is at the top of a sport that has changed enormously since he first played, a determined farmer's boy who loved to smash the ball as hard as he could. Lucas smashed his squash ball hard against the wall with his racket. noun smaʃsmæʃ 1An act or sound of something smashing. he heard the smash of glass Example sentencesExamples There was a fast drop in temperature, a creaking sound echoed throughout the room, and then a smash. Her neighbour heard a smash and ran out to see the boys running away from his car, the window was smashed. Miss Ul Haq said she heard a smash, Mr Derbyshire ran into the pub and Syed was in shock. The truck did a quick roll and landed with a crashing smash onto its side. Any humour in the retreat was abruptly shattered by the loud smash of a plate glass window by an excitable ram who was wilfully battering his head into it. Then, I heard the smash of someone breaking the small pane of glass next to the door. The sudden smash of something glass forewarned he was returning past the bathroom. Miss Ul Haq said Syed put his hands up to protect himself, she heard a smash and Mr Derbsyhire ran into the pub. Shrugging Antonio started to walk by the room when he heard the smash of something that sounded like glass. Victor braced himself, ducked and leaped to the ogre's side as the hammer crashed into the ground with a loud smash. Synonyms breaking, shattering, crashing, crash 1.1British A violent collision or impact between vehicles. a car smash Example sentencesExamples She was involved in a horrific smash, crashing into two cars which had already been involved in an accident. A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after two people died and a third was seriously injured in a car smash. The worst crash in the Western Bay in 17 months claimed the lives of three men in a head-on smash near Te Puke yesterday. There is going to be a smash; it's too late to avoid it; let the other lot stay in the driver's seat for now. There was a smash on the motorway this morning and so there was a lengthy delay. And if you think about it, what makes up the cost of motor premiums is the cost of fixing smashes, and the cost of parts keeps going up because a lot of them are imported, the exchange rate impacts on that. Police said the car was forced on to its side by the impact of the smash, but the driver made off when the vehicle fell back onto four wheels. Two men had a miracle escape after surviving a smash which turned a car into a fireball A driver has died after a horror smash in which his car careered off a quiet country road. In a separate accident two women were fighting for their lives in hospital after their car collided with another vehicle in a head-on smash in Rochdale. A Chapmanslade motorist lost control of his van in a snowstorm moments before he was killed in a head-on smash, an inquest heard on Monday. The father-of-two was killed on June 10 in a smash with another vehicle when he was driving to Denver airport. Neither of the friends was wearing a seat belt and they could have been watching a dashboard DVD system when the smash took place, an inquest heard. The accident rate on the Ipswich Motorway is so bad that motorists using the road have up to a 50/50 chance of being delayed because of a smash on any given day. Crashes can often be predicted long before the eventual smash. This Friday we go straight to the train smash in New South Wales. A call has been made for a complete overhaul of school transport safety after more than 50 children were involved in a horror smash on Friday afternoon. A woman lies trapped in an upturned station wagon, numb from the impact of a car smash. Friends of a teenager who died in a car smash have called on the driver, who disappeared after the accident, to give himself up. If we had capsized we would have had to survive the impact of a car smash, get out, and then get to the boat. Synonyms crash, multiple crash, car crash, collision, multiple collision, accident, car accident, road accident, traffic accident, road traffic accident, bump British RTA North American wreck informal pile-up, smash-up British informal prang, shunt 1.2 A violent blow. a forearm smash Example sentencesExamples Playoffs hockey can be blunt, like a forearm smash to the chin. Players get launched into the air, take forearm smashes, and land with such force, gamers will grimace for weeks at the wreck of bodies left in its wake. A forearm smash from Richard Morales earned him an instant red. The Duke took this as a good sign and attempted to walk around the Marvel once more and was met for his troubles with a forearm smash to the chest that almost knocked him off his feet. So we may look forward once again to the forearm smash being deployed at the line-out by the master of that particular black art. 1.3 A stroke in tennis, badminton, and similar sports in which the ball or shuttlecock is hit downwards with a hard overarm volley. Example sentencesExamples A smash in badminton is more like a punch in boxing than a smash in tennis. In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip. After some long serving from Christine Dunne and a great smash from Aodainn Crowe, the sides were level at 10-10. Henman attacks Sanchez's serve from the outset and gets the first break of the match with a chip and charge, a deft volley and an impressive smash. The second-youngest of IG Made Sumandra and Asni Anggraini's four children said that she preferred using rallies and lobs to make up for her powerless smashes in winning a point. 2informal A very successful song, film, show, or performer. a box office smash Example sentencesExamples The film was a smash hit, garnering nine Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture. Felim is best known for his part as actor and musician on the smash hit film ‘The Commitments’. The brothers danced together in the smash Broadway revue Eubie! in 1978 and again on the big screen in Cotton Club. It has been a dance-floor smash ever since Tall Paul dropped the track last year at London's super club Turnmills. The ad, for John Smith's bitter, sees Kay return to his table with a tray of drinks in a packed nightclub as the crooner performs his smash hit Release Me. A smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Head Games transfers to the Oval House Theatre, from Wednesday, February 12. The film was a smash hit and the dancers have high hopes that the ballet version of the drama will repeat that success in China. There's a new movie based on a hit Broadway play that was based on an earlier movie about a Broadway play that's supposed to flop, but it's an unexpected smash. Gerry Rafferty - he of the 1970s smash Baker Street - is selling up in the town before he has even moved in. Though the film was not a smash hit during its theatrical run, I believe it will garner a vast and appreciative audience on DVD. When he auditioned he did not realise until later that the backing track he had recorded at the audition was the smash hit Lola. The smash hit disco film is to finish a 17-week run at Studio 1 and 2. Two years later, the show was a smash; it introduced dance crazes like the Bunny Hop, and Horn had received an award from TV Guide. That the film has been a smash hit in its homeland Sweden only proves that its characterisations are rock solid. The London production of The Producers - starring Nathan Lane on short notice - seems to be a smash. Supported by innovative marketing, the film was a smash hit. The show was such a smash in London that Mendes revived it in Manhattan in 1998 where it became a phenomenon. Various songs could make huge singles, but ‘Girl’ in particular, a rolling guitar rave as ode to summer, looks like a viable smash. Jonathan Antin is the face of the smash Bravo series ‘Blow Out’ and the name behind a line of hair care products. Buster Poindexter released his cover version three years later, which went on to become an international smash. Synonyms great success, sensation, sell-out, triumph French succès fou informal hit, smash hit, winner, crowd-puller, knockout, wow, biggie 3A mixture of spirits (typically brandy) with flavoured water and ice. Example sentencesExamples Have a smash of the brandy before it's all gone. 4dated, informal A bankruptcy or financial failure. Example sentencesExamples The consequence, as you might surmise, was an impressive series of financial smashes in my early twenties. adverbsmaʃ With a sudden, violent shattering. they were together for an instant, and then smash it was all gone Phrases go to smash dated, informal Be ruined or destroyed. he sees the community going to smash Example sentencesExamples To paraphrase the poem, ‘When faith and reason clash, let reason go to smash!’ Origin Early 18th century (as a noun): probably imitative, representing a blend of words such as smack, smite with bash, mash, etc.. Rhymes abash, ash, Ashe, bash, brash, cache, calash, cash, clash, crash, dash, encash, flash, gnash, hash, lash, mash, Nash, panache, pash, plash, rash, sash, slash, soutache, splash, stash, thrash, trash verb.1 phr. Definition of smash in US English: smash verbsmæʃsmaSH 1with object Violently break (something) into pieces. the thief smashed a window to get into the car gone are the days when he smashed up hotels Example sentencesExamples Keith Moon would throw his drumsticks into the audience and Pete Townshend would smash his guitar to pieces. A crowd of youths ran riot on The Inch estate, engaging in running street battles, smashing windows and breaking into cars. The first few of them came into our garden, right to our front door, where they picked up a large filled flowerpot, took it a few yards up the road and smashed it to pieces. After realising there was no money or valuables to be taken, they smashed another stained glass window. They were rescued when firemen put ladders up to the bedroom window, smashed the glass and guided the trio to safety. He said the thieves had smashed the windows and shutters, and damaged pictures on walls inside the unit. The offender smashed a plate glass window to enter the premises. He got his ladder and climbed up to the window where Sarah had smashed the glass. Thieves had attempted to break through the front door of building before smashing a stained glass window. In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows. Nothing was taken but thieves smashed a driver's-side window to gain entry to the car. After seeing a hand at the bedroom window he smashed the glass and reached inside, briefly touching someone's fingers. In the past year windows have been smashed, practice nets damaged and the clubhouse daubed with graffiti. Barry takes out his frustration by breaking and smashing things or randomly bursting into tears. Less than 90 minutes later, thieves smashed a window at Colchester Optical Centre in Red Lion Yard and snatched designer glasses from a display. They then smashed their playstation, broke the kitchen table in bits and ripped up a load of magazines and threw the pages all over the ground. He gets aggressive and smashes things and shouts a lot. Schoolchildren have been left devastated after their new Wendy house was smashed up by yobs. But, after cutting through a wire fence and then smashing a window the thieves stole a box containing the pictures, two generators and a disabled ramp. And earlier this month New Road Methodist Chapel in Heys Lane, Blackburn, fell victim to vandals who smashed stained glass windows. Synonyms break, break to pieces, smash to smithereens, shatter 1.1no object Be violently broken into pieces; shatter. the glass ball smashed instantly on the pavement Example sentencesExamples And then the back panel of the frame fell out and the glass fell onto the floor and smashed into a million pieces. Something was thrown at the ground and smashed into pieces. It smashed on the hard floor, and I stepped back to avoid the broken pieces on my bare feet. He whacked the nail so hard on the head, it smashed into pieces. The plate smashed into three pieces as he flung it at the television. Calissa fell to the floor, her glass of wine smashing into a hundred pieces. He leapt to another roof, just as a large rock smashed into pieces on the ground where he was. The glass shattered as it smashed against the floorboards. Instead, they all toppled over the side of the counter, smashing into billions of pieces onto the floor. He reached over and caught it before it smashed into a million pieces without spilling a drop. The mirror smashed, sending pieces of tiny glass in every direction and littering the ground. Anyway as I was doing it I knocked a glass lamp from a small table and it smashed to tiny pieces on the parquet floor, it made a huge bang. When the plate is smashed into hundreds of pieces, we do not find that one piece contains the bird's wing, and another piece the bird's beak. Modern safety standards require shatterproof glass, which won't smash into sharp shards - but older furniture may well have plain glass. The mirror shattered instantly, smashing to the ground with a thunderous crash. Before I realise it the glass has left my hand and reaches the middle of the room, smashing to pieces on the floor. He jumped with the shock of the noise, dropping his torch to the floor where the lens and bulb smashed on the hard floor with a single spark of power. His large, meaty hand grabbed the lamp and he threw it at the wall, causing it to smash into a million pieces. She dropped her glass on the floor watching it as it smashed into 1,000 pieces. Stine slammed an already small piece of tile quite harshly onto the board causing it to smash into billions of pieces. Synonyms break, break to pieces, smash to smithereens, shatter 1.2 Violently knock down or crush inward. soldiers smashed down doors Example sentencesExamples Officers smashed down the door of a flat in Westbourne Grove, Southend, at around 2am after blocking the street with patrol cars. They then smashed down a shutter but were unable to gain access to the safe because it was time-locked and they were forced to leave empty-handed. When Gardaí returned to the vehicle, three of its windows had been smashed in with rocks. Twice in the past five years, in different parts of Britain, I have been in a gay pub when the window has been smashed in, on one occasion showering me and my drink with broken glass. He did a war dance down the track as he had Trevor White caught at first slip by Byas and another jig followed when he smashed down Iain Sutcliffe's stumps to end the day. Synonyms crash into, collide with, be in collision with, hit, strike, ram, smack into, slam into, bang into, plough into, meet head-on, run into, drive into, bump into, crack against, crack into 1.3 Crash and severely damage (a vehicle) my Volvo's been smashed up Example sentencesExamples She says that the insurance inspector has evidence that all the times that he's smashed up the car over the last year haven't been accidents. Thousands of pounds of damage has been inflicted on her property - her car has been smashed up more than a dozen times. Police and tax officials watched stunned as a white van man smashed up his vehicle on a York street rather than hand it over to road tax enforcers. Synonyms crash, wreck 1.4 Hit or attack (someone) very violently. Donald smashed him over the head Example sentencesExamples Lads were taking turns to give him a right going over, smashing him in the face with weapons and stamping on him. In May a wind sail mast smashed her in the face, leaving her traumatised and minus some teeth. The Celtic defender appeared to smash Paul Fenwick across the face in a first-half clash missed by referee Alan Freeland but captured by Sky TV cameras. She was left with black eyes after a fellow inmate smashed her in the face with a plastic mug. Sometimes they would use tricks like bringing you gently to the mat and smashing you down at the last moment. No sooner had these words passed his lips when a figure wearing a black cloak smashed him full-force into the snow and raised a dagger above his throat. I also learned how to smash someone's face in with a bar, and the correct boots to wear to kick, severely damage and vandalize private property. Another man then appeared and smashed him across his left arm with an iron cosh, before dragging him out and throwing him to the ground. He threatened to smash me in the face with the grill. Pavel smashed him in the face with the back of his hand. He smashed him across the face and then when he was down starting kicking him. They respond by kicking him and smashing him repeatedly from behind with an iron pipe until he is on the restraining conveyor belt that carries him to the stunner. They were waiting for us and smashed us into the ground. Then the man turns to Six as Six smashes him in the face with his gun. He pulled his gun and smashed her in the head with it. She grabbed his arm and swung him through the air, smashing him back down into the ground again. Last week, two officers who worked with Rhodes testified that they saw Rhodes drive Zhao's head into the pavement and smash her in the side of the head with his knee. A struggle ensued and he was smashed over the head with a revolver. He was pretty horrible so I hope that I smashed him over the head with something heavy, grabbed my car keys and made a swift getaway, but you never know with dreams. I would love to smash her in the face with a mallet. Synonyms hit, strike, thump, punch, cuff, smack, thwack 1.5 Easily or comprehensively beat (a record) he smashed the course record Example sentencesExamples The numbers smashed its 100,000 minimum target for lottery funding and compare favourably with Scotland's top attractions. Which US adventurer smashed the round-the-world sailing record by six days? Young songsters from York and North Yorkshire have smashed the Guinness World Record for the largest ever simultaneous sing. TWO sisters suffering from the same genetic illness could be on the road to a cure this year, thanks to fundraisers who are within a whisker of smashing a £160,000 target. Dairy Crest has raised £190,000 in just five months, well and truly smashing their initial annual target of £50,000. Murphy also smashed the course record at Shrigley on his way to winning the club championship and he has often proved unbeatable on the Macclesfield course. A rugby league superkid from York is in line to smash a British try-scoring record set by Wigan Warriors star Simon Haughton. Moseley had earlier set the clubhouse target after smashing the course record by two shots with a flawless 63. A bare-footed Zola Budd smashed the 5, 000m record at Crystal Palace athletics stadium Without last weekend's appalling weather, he reckoned that all attendance records would have been smashed. A Mid-Essex care Trust has smashed Government targets by getting a waiting list for assessments down to zero. BOX office records have been smashed during the first week of Ulverston's Charter Festival. We had suspected that all records must have been smashed on the night and this was confirmed when the betting figures were revealed. It had been a devastating blow: until that moment she had been more than five days ahead of schedule and on course to smash the record. It struck both Mr Chan's and Miss Holden's cars before smashing through the crash barrier, plunging 60 ft to the bank of the Weaver Navigation canal below. After smashing the £600,000 target a year ahead of schedule, the appeal launched its second phase to reach £1m. The Midlander, who smashed the course record with a 61 in the first round, is attached to the club and his caddie, Roy Robinson, is a member of Hopwood. He started in the red and ran accordingly, smashing the course record despite carrying 62 kg. He smashed a long standing record o 29: 78 that Cape Prince held since about 1995. After he smashed the Bolton Association record for runs in a season, Bazid Khan is now looking to break into the Pakistan cricket team. 1.6 Completely defeat, destroy, or foil (something regarded as hostile or dangerous) a deliberate attempt to smash the union movement Example sentencesExamples The Howard government was involved in a conspiracy with stevedoring companies to smash the Maritime Union of Australia several years ago. I know that a lot of people in Yorkshire will always blame Nottinghamshire for the outcome but the man who smashed the greatest union this country has ever seen was Arthur Scargill. Synonyms destroy, wreck, ruin, shatter, dash, crush, devastate, demolish, blast, blight, wipe out, overturn, torpedo, scotch 2no object, with adverbial of direction Move so as to hit or collide with something with great force and impact. their plane smashed into a mountainside Example sentencesExamples A couple who flew into Manchester Airport told of their miracle escape after a 20 ft tidal wave smashed into their Sri Lankan hotel. Look at the sheer force of the waves as they smashed into the coast line just feet from the road. Sobirin, 36, was sleeping at around 8 p.m. when the strong current smashed through the walls of his home. The man stepped around a corner, and Ralier barreled after him, smashing into the wall as he turned. Sheids got a nice surge and floated effortlessly in and around the back of the jump off rock, scrambling up onto it before the next wave smashed into it sending a huge plume of spray into the air. Frank Davies, aged 79, was showered with flying masonry as he lay in his bed when the Mazda smashed into the bedroom wall of the bungalow. He told her Jamie, who had been visiting the resort with his Thai wife Noi, had been taken to hospital with broken ribs after the waves smashed into his beachside hut. In fact, we're going to take just a little bit of a look down the beach; you can see the waves smashing into the beach. As the waves smashed against the pillars of the floating barge, I noticed the driftwood that was totally at the mercy of the current. It then smashed head on into a tree, breaking it in half, before ploughing into some railings. At Galveston, at the storm's northern edge, waves smashed over the 17-foot seawall that guards the city from the gulf. She and her husband and two children escaped with cuts and bruises after a wave smashed through the windscreen of their van. She shot down the road backwards before smashing into the wall of a front garden five doors down the street. Her arm stopped her head from smashing into the hard pavement. Fierce headwinds driving against currents produced steep-fronted waves that smashed into the fleet as it struggled to reach the finish line. Rain is slashing slantwise, mixing with spray from waves smashing into jetty walls. More than 30 people were taken to hospital yesterday after a crowded underground train smashed into a tunnel wall when it derailed in central London. The fight was over when his face smashed into the hard floor. As he fell face-first his mouth smashed against the hard corner of the table, chipping a front tooth. An elderly couple caught up in the Asian tsunami while holidaying in Sri Lanka have spoken about their terror as the giant killer waves smashed into their luxury resort. Synonyms collide with, hit, run into, bang into, crash into, smash into, smack into, crack into, ram into, be in collision with, plough into 2.1with object and adverbial of direction (in sports) strike (the ball) or score (a goal, run, etc.) with great force. he smashed that one into the bleachers for another two-run homer Example sentencesExamples Ten minutes later Mick Ward turned his defender on the edge of the penalty box and smashed the ball into the top corner. O'Neill bagged the first of his five goals when smashing the ball to the back of the Roanmore net with a fine effort after receiving a pass from Michael King and this goal came after nine minutes. The third goal was scored by Charlotte Bolan, who smashed the ball in after Nicola Rawlinson's shot had been blocked by a defender. Then Kahn makes a wonder save with his legs as Roberto Carlos's low cross is deflected to Ronaldo, who twists on a sixpence and smashes the ball towards the goal. Close to half time Silsden took the lead when defender, Katherine Wust smashed the ball into the top of the net from a corner. 2.2with object (in tennis, badminton, and similar sports) strike (the ball or shuttlecock) downward with a hard overhand stroke. Example sentencesExamples Someone passed me the ball, I jumped up as high as possible and smashed the ball as hard as I could. Woosnam is at the top of a sport that has changed enormously since he first played, a determined farmer's boy who loved to smash the ball as hard as he could. Lucas smashed his squash ball hard against the wall with his racket. nounsmæʃsmaSH 1An act or sound of something smashing. he heard the smash of glass Example sentencesExamples Miss Ul Haq said Syed put his hands up to protect himself, she heard a smash and Mr Derbsyhire ran into the pub. Then, I heard the smash of someone breaking the small pane of glass next to the door. Any humour in the retreat was abruptly shattered by the loud smash of a plate glass window by an excitable ram who was wilfully battering his head into it. There was a fast drop in temperature, a creaking sound echoed throughout the room, and then a smash. The sudden smash of something glass forewarned he was returning past the bathroom. Miss Ul Haq said she heard a smash, Mr Derbyshire ran into the pub and Syed was in shock. Shrugging Antonio started to walk by the room when he heard the smash of something that sounded like glass. The truck did a quick roll and landed with a crashing smash onto its side. Victor braced himself, ducked and leaped to the ogre's side as the hammer crashed into the ground with a loud smash. Her neighbour heard a smash and ran out to see the boys running away from his car, the window was smashed. Synonyms breaking, shattering, crashing, crash 1.1British A violent collision or impact between vehicles. a car smash Example sentencesExamples And if you think about it, what makes up the cost of motor premiums is the cost of fixing smashes, and the cost of parts keeps going up because a lot of them are imported, the exchange rate impacts on that. Neither of the friends was wearing a seat belt and they could have been watching a dashboard DVD system when the smash took place, an inquest heard. She was involved in a horrific smash, crashing into two cars which had already been involved in an accident. The father-of-two was killed on June 10 in a smash with another vehicle when he was driving to Denver airport. A driver has died after a horror smash in which his car careered off a quiet country road. If we had capsized we would have had to survive the impact of a car smash, get out, and then get to the boat. The worst crash in the Western Bay in 17 months claimed the lives of three men in a head-on smash near Te Puke yesterday. There is going to be a smash; it's too late to avoid it; let the other lot stay in the driver's seat for now. Two men had a miracle escape after surviving a smash which turned a car into a fireball The accident rate on the Ipswich Motorway is so bad that motorists using the road have up to a 50/50 chance of being delayed because of a smash on any given day. Police said the car was forced on to its side by the impact of the smash, but the driver made off when the vehicle fell back onto four wheels. A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after two people died and a third was seriously injured in a car smash. This Friday we go straight to the train smash in New South Wales. In a separate accident two women were fighting for their lives in hospital after their car collided with another vehicle in a head-on smash in Rochdale. A woman lies trapped in an upturned station wagon, numb from the impact of a car smash. There was a smash on the motorway this morning and so there was a lengthy delay. Friends of a teenager who died in a car smash have called on the driver, who disappeared after the accident, to give himself up. Crashes can often be predicted long before the eventual smash. A Chapmanslade motorist lost control of his van in a snowstorm moments before he was killed in a head-on smash, an inquest heard on Monday. A call has been made for a complete overhaul of school transport safety after more than 50 children were involved in a horror smash on Friday afternoon. Synonyms crash, multiple crash, car crash, collision, multiple collision, accident, car accident, road accident, traffic accident, road traffic accident, bump 1.2 A violent blow. a forearm smash Example sentencesExamples Playoffs hockey can be blunt, like a forearm smash to the chin. Players get launched into the air, take forearm smashes, and land with such force, gamers will grimace for weeks at the wreck of bodies left in its wake. A forearm smash from Richard Morales earned him an instant red. So we may look forward once again to the forearm smash being deployed at the line-out by the master of that particular black art. The Duke took this as a good sign and attempted to walk around the Marvel once more and was met for his troubles with a forearm smash to the chest that almost knocked him off his feet. 1.3 A stroke in tennis, badminton, and similar sports in which the ball is hit downward with a hard overhand volley. Example sentencesExamples The second-youngest of IG Made Sumandra and Asni Anggraini's four children said that she preferred using rallies and lobs to make up for her powerless smashes in winning a point. A smash in badminton is more like a punch in boxing than a smash in tennis. Henman attacks Sanchez's serve from the outset and gets the first break of the match with a chip and charge, a deft volley and an impressive smash. In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip. After some long serving from Christine Dunne and a great smash from Aodainn Crowe, the sides were level at 10-10. 2informal A very successful song, film, show, or performer. a box-office smash Example sentencesExamples Though the film was not a smash hit during its theatrical run, I believe it will garner a vast and appreciative audience on DVD. Felim is best known for his part as actor and musician on the smash hit film ‘The Commitments’. The brothers danced together in the smash Broadway revue Eubie! in 1978 and again on the big screen in Cotton Club. The film was a smash hit and the dancers have high hopes that the ballet version of the drama will repeat that success in China. Gerry Rafferty - he of the 1970s smash Baker Street - is selling up in the town before he has even moved in. A smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Head Games transfers to the Oval House Theatre, from Wednesday, February 12. When he auditioned he did not realise until later that the backing track he had recorded at the audition was the smash hit Lola. Supported by innovative marketing, the film was a smash hit. The ad, for John Smith's bitter, sees Kay return to his table with a tray of drinks in a packed nightclub as the crooner performs his smash hit Release Me. It has been a dance-floor smash ever since Tall Paul dropped the track last year at London's super club Turnmills. The film was a smash hit, garnering nine Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture. There's a new movie based on a hit Broadway play that was based on an earlier movie about a Broadway play that's supposed to flop, but it's an unexpected smash. Jonathan Antin is the face of the smash Bravo series ‘Blow Out’ and the name behind a line of hair care products. Various songs could make huge singles, but ‘Girl’ in particular, a rolling guitar rave as ode to summer, looks like a viable smash. That the film has been a smash hit in its homeland Sweden only proves that its characterisations are rock solid. Buster Poindexter released his cover version three years later, which went on to become an international smash. Two years later, the show was a smash; it introduced dance crazes like the Bunny Hop, and Horn had received an award from TV Guide. The London production of The Producers - starring Nathan Lane on short notice - seems to be a smash. The smash hit disco film is to finish a 17-week run at Studio 1 and 2. The show was such a smash in London that Mendes revived it in Manhattan in 1998 where it became a phenomenon. Synonyms great success, sensation, sell-out, triumph 3A mixture of liquors (typically brandy) with flavored water and ice. Example sentencesExamples Have a smash of the brandy before it's all gone. 4dated, informal A bankruptcy or financial failure. Example sentencesExamples The consequence, as you might surmise, was an impressive series of financial smashes in my early twenties. Origin Early 18th century (as a noun): probably imitative, representing a blend of words such as smack, smite with bash, mash, etc..
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