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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024smash•ing /ˈsmæʃɪŋ/USA pronunciation adj. - impressive or wonderful:a smashing success.
- crushing or devastating.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024smash•ing (smash′ing),USA pronunciation adj. - impressive or wonderful:a smashing display.
- crushing or devastating:a smashing defeat.
smash′ing•ly, adv. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: smashing /ˈsmæʃɪŋ/ adj - informal chiefly Brit excellent or first-rate; wonderful: we had a smashing time
smash /smæʃ/USA pronunciation v. - to (cause to) break to pieces, as by striking or dashing against something;
shatter: [no object]The vase smashed to pieces when I dropped it.[~ + object]He smashed the vase to pieces. - to destroy or defeat completely:[~ + object]The attack on that country smashed its ability to make war again.
- to hit or drive with force: [no object]The car smashed into the wall.[~ + object]He smashed the car into the wall.
- Sport (in racket sports like tennis) to hit (a ball or shuttlecock) with a powerful, downward overhand stroke:[~ + object]smashed the ball down the sideline.
n. [countable] - an act or instance of smashing.
- the sound of such smashing:the sudden smash of glass or bottles breaking.
- a blow, hit, or slap.
- a destructive collision, as between automobiles.
- Informal Termssomething achieving great success;
a hit:Their new movie was a huge smash. - Sport(in racket sports) a powerful, downward overhand stroke, or the ball or shuttlecock hit with such a stroke.
adj. [before a noun] - [Informal.]of or relating to a great success:a smash hit on Broadway.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024smash (smash),USA pronunciation v.t. - to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something;
shatter:He smashed the vase against the wall. - to defeat, disappoint, or disillusion utterly.
- to hit or strike (someone or something) with force.
- to overthrow or destroy something considered as harmful:They smashed the drug racket.
- to ruin financially:The depression smashed him.
- Sport[Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis.]to hit (a ball or shuttlecock) overhead or overhand with a hard downward motion, causing the shot to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.
v.i. - to break to pieces from a violent blow or collision.
- to dash with a shattering or crushing force or with great violence;
crash (usually fol. by against, into, through, etc.). - to become financially ruined or bankrupt (often fol. by up).
- to flatten and compress the signatures of a book in a press before binding.
n. - the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
- the sound of such a smash.
- a blow, hit, or slap.
- a destructive collision, as between automobiles.
- a smashed or shattered condition.
- a process or state of collapse, ruin, or destruction:the total smash that another war would surely bring.
- financial failure or ruin.
- Informal TermsSee smash hit.
- Winea drink made of brandy, or other liquor, with sugar, water, mint, and ice.
- Sport[Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis.]
- an overhead or overhand stroke in which the ball or shuttlecock is hit with a hard, downward motion causing it to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.
- a ball hit with such a stroke.
adj. - of, relating to, or constituting a great success:That composer has written many smash tunes.
- perh. blend of, blended smack2 and mash 1690–1700
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See break.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged bankrupt.
- 11.See corresponding entry in Unabridged crash.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: smash /smæʃ/ vb - to break into pieces violently and usually noisily
- when intr, followed by against, through, into, etc: to throw or crash (against) vigorously, causing shattering: he smashed the equipment, it smashed against the wall
- (transitive) to hit forcefully and suddenly
- (transitive) to hit (the ball) fast and powerfully, esp with an overhead stroke
- (transitive) to defeat or wreck (persons, theories, etc)
- (transitive) to make bankrupt
- (intransitive) to collide violently; crash
n - an act, instance, or sound of smashing or the state of being smashed
- a violent collision, esp of vehicles
- a total failure or collapse, as of a business
- a fast and powerful overhead stroke
- informal something having popular success
- (in combination): smash-hit
adv - with a smash
See also smash-upEtymology: 18th Century: probably from sm( ack² + m) ashˈsmashable adj |