Noun

• S: (n) smashing, shattering (the act of breaking something into small pieces)

Verb

• S: (v) smash, nail, boom, blast (hit hard) "He smashed a 3-run homer"
• S: (v) smash, dash (break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over) "Smash a plate"
• S: (v) bankrupt, ruin, break, smash (reduce to bankruptcy) "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
• S: (v) smash (hit violently) "She smashed her car against the guard rail"
• S: (v) crush, smash (humiliate or depress completely) "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
• S: (v) bang up, smash up, smash (damage or destroy as if by violence) "The teenager banged up the car of his mother"
• S: (v) smash (hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke)
• S: (v) smash (collide or strike violently and suddenly) "The motorcycle smashed into the guard rail"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) smash (overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)) "The police smashed the drug ring after they were tipped off"
• S: (v) smash (break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow) "The window smashed"

Adjective

• S: (adj) bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing, old (very good) "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"; "we had a grand old time"