Dictionary Entry
smash
smash is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
- 2intransitive verb
To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.
- 3noun
A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
- 4noun
Hence, bankruptcy.
- 5noun
a conspicuous success
"that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"
"that new Broadway show is a real smasher"
- 6noun
the act of colliding with something
"his crash through the window"
"the fullback's smash into the defensive line"
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- 7noun
a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
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- 8noun
a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- 9noun
a vigorous blow
"the sudden knock floored him"
"he took a bash right in his face"
- 10verb
break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
"The window smashed"
- 11verb
break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
"Smash a plate"
Synonyms
- 12verb
overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
"The police smashed the drug ring after they were tipped off"
- 13verb
hit hard
"He smashed a 3-run homer"
- 14verb
collide or strike violently and suddenly
"The motorcycle smashed into the guard rail"
- 15verb
hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- 16verb
damage or destroy as if by violence
"The teenager banged up the car of his mother"
- 17verb
humiliate or depress completely
"She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"
"The death of her son smashed her"
- 18verb
hit violently
"She smashed her car against the guard rail"
- 19verb
reduce to bankruptcy
"My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"
"The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
- 20adverb
with a loud crash
"the car went smash through the fence"
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