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Definition: Smash |
SmashAdverb1. With a loud crash; "the car went smash through the fence". Noun1. A vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head". 2. A serious collision (especially of motor vehicles). 3. A hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head. 4. The act of colliding with something. 5. A conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career". Verb1. Hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer". 2. Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over; "Smash a plate". 3. Damage or destroy as if by violence; "The teenager banged up the car of his mother". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "smash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Note: Smash \Smash\ (sm[a^]sh), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Smashed(sm[a^]sht); Smashing.]. (references) |
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Literature | Smash Come to smash - to ruin. Smashed to pieces, broken to atoms. Smash is a corruption of mash; Latin, mastico, to bite to pieces. (See Slope .) "I have a great mind to ... let social position go to smash."- Eggleston: Faith Doctor, p. 63. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | SMASH. Leg of mutton and smash: a leg of mutton and mashed turnips. SEA TERM. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Smash is The Offspring's third album, released on April 19, 1994. Smash sold more than 11 million copies world wide and broke The Offspring into the mainstream, along with pop punk bands like blink-182, Rancid and Green Day.
The album peaked at #4 on Billboard's pop albums charts and #1 on the Heatseeker's chart. Signed to Epitaph Records, The Offspring's surprise success made the indie label one of the most promising ones in the United States, performing better than thought possible for an indie-released album. "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)", with its mixture of Middle-Eastern rhythms, punk energy and anthemic chorus, became a huge hit single and one of the band's signature songs.
Track Listing
- "Time to Relax" (Offspring)
- "Nitro (Youth Energy)" (Offspring)
- "Bad Habit" (Offspring)
- "Gotta Get Away" (Offspring)
- "Genocide" (Offspring)
- "Something to Believe In" (Offspring)
- "Come Out and Play" (Offspring)
- "Self-Esteem" (Offspring)
- "It'll Be a Long Time" (Offspring)
- "Killboy Powerhead" (Didjits)
- "What Happened to You?" (Offspring)
- "So Alone" (Offspring)
- "Not the One" (Offspring)
- "Smash" (Offspring)
Personnel
- Dexter Holland - Guitar, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
- Lisa Johnson - Photography
- Noodles - Guitar, Vocals (bckgr)
- Ken Paulakovich - Engineer
- Eddy Schreyer - Mastering
- Ron Welty - Drums, Vocals (bckgr)
- Thom Wilson - Producer, Engineer
- Fred Hidalgo - Art Direction
- Mike Ainsworth - Assistant Engineer
- Ulysses Noriega - Assistant Engineer
Charting singles
1994 Come Out And Play Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 10 1994 Self Esteem Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 7 1994 Come Out And Play Modern Rock Tracks No. 1 1994 Self Esteem Modern Rock Tracks No. 4 1994 Come Out And Play Top 40 Mainstream No. 39 1995 Gotta Get Away Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 15 1995 Gotta Get Away Modern Rock Tracks No. 6Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Smash."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SMASH | English | Simple, many and self-healing | N/A |
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Synonyms: SmashSynonyms: smashingly (adv), bang (n), bash (n), belt (n), collision (n), crash (n), hit (n), knock (n), overhead (n), smash-up (n), strike (n), bang up (v), blast (v), boom (v), dash (v), nail (v), smash up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destruction | Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall. |
Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize. | |
Eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout. | |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
Failure | Mishap; (misfortune); split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion. |
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Crosswords: Smash |
| English words defined with "smash": break apart, break up, bust up ♦ crash ♦ Pash ♦ smashingly ♦ wrack, wreck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "smash": aliasing bug ♦ case sensitivity ♦ fandango on core, fold case ♦ gronk ♦ King Cash ♦ memory leak, memory smash ♦ precedence lossage ♦ smash case, smash sum, stale pointer bug ♦ unwind the stack ♦ walk off the end of. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Smash" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (smash), German (smash), Italian (smash), Spanish (smash), Swedish (smash). |
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Screenplays | If you get a customer or an employee who thinks he's Charles Bronson, take the butt of your gun and smash their nose in. (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino) And I'll, and I'll smash your face for you, yarblockos (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella) Come out peacefully so we can smash your drug mill and all your worldly possessions (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You hum itI'll smash your face in. (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall) | |
Lyrics | The chicks I was fiendin' to smash (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z) And smash any hope of democracry (Sowing The Seeds of Love; performing artist: Tears For Fears) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Smash and Grab (1937) The Smash Up (1925) Their Social Smash (1916) The Great Smash (1916) An Attempt to Smash a Bank (1909) | |
Song Titles | All Star (performing artist: Smash Mouth) Pacific Coast Party (performing artist: Smash Mouth) Then the Morning Comes (performing artist: Smash Mouth) Walkin' On The Sun (performing artist: Smash Mouth) I'm A Believer (performing artist: Smash Mouth) | |
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![]() | "On the morning of March 27, 1945 during Okinawa preparations four suicide planes attacked the light cruiser USS Biloxi. Three were shot down in flames but the fourth broke through the umbrella of ack-ack to smash itself against the cruiser's side. Later investigation revealed a 500-kilogram bomb which failed to explode. Rendered harmless, the bomb became the prized possession of the quarterdeck where it is shown being examined by Major Anthony V. Ragusin (right) of Biloxi, Miss., and Ensign Jack Fisher, USNR, of Natchitoches, La., both of whom are attached to the staff of the Commander in Chief Pacific Ocean Areas." (Quoted from the original caption released with this photograph on 7 September 1945.). Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Progressive democracy--prospect of a smash up. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The smash. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Mediums smash the Simmern roundhouse. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Amphtracs smash against the beach of Angaur. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). There's no household task too arduous for this 1942-style American mother who spends eight hours a day working at the Frankford Arsenal to smash the Axis. When those banisters need cleaning and polishing, they get cleaned and po. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | 30 hours work for 40 hours pay! Smash racist unemployment! Bust the wage freeze! U.S. out of S.E. Asia now! : May Day. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Skidded; skidding; skid; car accident; crash; automobile accident; impact; collision; accident; crunch; smash; smashed; smashing; fender tag; fender-bender; pileup; ram; rear-ender; shock; sideswipe; smash; smash-up; stack-up; thud; thump; total; washout. | Wood; wooden; crate; smash; smashing. | ||
| Bang; clang; crash; clash; rumble; rumbling; slam; smash; thud; thunder; wham . | Break; crash; breaking; glass; broken; shattered; shatter; smash; smashing; shattering. | ||
| Glass; shatter; shattering; smash; smashing; automobile headlight; car headlight. | Smash; flatten; squeeze. | ||
| Squash; flatten; smoosh; smash; abrade; beat down; bowl over; compress; crush; debase; deflate; depress; even out; fell; floor; flush; grade; ground; iron out; knock down; lay; lay low; level; mow down; plane; plaster; prostrate; raze; roll; smash; smooth. | |||
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Seneca | Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves; they destroy imported wares that compete with their labour, they smash to pieces machinery, they set factories ablaze, they seek to restore by force the vanished status of the workman of the Middle Ages. (reference) |
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Economic History | Ireland | Tensions only increased: British attempts to smash Sinn Fein ignited the Anglo-Irish War of 1919-1921. (references) |
Travel | Bulgaria | Pickpocket and purse snatching attacks on the street or in public buses and trams are frequent occurrences, as is theft from automobiles, where thieves smash windows to remove valuables left in sight. (references) |
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Rush Limbaugh | So when some minority who's a conservative comes along, and shows you can succeed without following the Democrat dance steps, the Democrats set out to smash that person. |
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| "Smash" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 47.76% of the time. "Smash" is used about 469 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 47.76% | 224 | 20,130 |
| Noun (singular) | 39.23% | 184 | 22,714 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.58% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.43% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 469 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "smash": go smash ♦ hit a smash ♦ memory smash ♦ smash a theory ♦ smash case ♦ smash down ♦ smash hit ♦ smash in ♦ smash into smithereens ♦ smash smb.'s face in ♦ smash smth. to smithereens ♦ smash sum ♦ smash the ball ♦ smash the stack ♦ smash to pieces ♦ smash to smithereens ♦ smash up. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "smash": smash-andgrab, smash-and-grab, smash-and-grab raid, smash-and-grabbable, smash-hit, smash-ins, smash-style, smash-up. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "smash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpartalloj (crush, discomfit, hammer, rout, scatter, shatter, whitewash), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), zhurmë (ado, bang, blatancy, bobbery, Chirm, clamor, clamour, din, hoopla, jangle, noise, noisiness, racket, sound, sputter, to-do, tumult, uproar), thyhet (go to pieces), thyej (bend, break, break to pieces, cash, change, crack up, demolish, fold, fracture, hurt, mammock, maul, mill, refract, rupture, shatter, shiver, sliver, snap, Spall, split, stamp, transgress, worst, wreck), rrënohet (molder, moulder), potere (ado, bedlam, carrying-on, clutter, din, fracas, fray, hoopla, hoot, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly burly, jangle, noise, pandemonium, pother, racket, rowdyism, rumpus, shindy, uproar), përlarje, krismë (bang, clash, crack, crash, rattle, scratch, snap), godas fort (affect, bang, smite, thump), dërrmoj (contuse, crush, drub, grind, hammer, mangle, overcome, plough under, whelm, wipe the floor with), bëj copash (shred, sliver), bëhet copë e çikë, aksident (accident, casualty, misadventure). (various references) | |
Arabic | سطو (hold up), رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), إخفاق (baulk, bust, deadlock, failure, fizzle out, frost, lemon, miscarriage, miss, screw, setback, turkey, unsuccess, wall, wrack), إصطدام (clash, shock), إصطدام عنيف, إنهيار (avalanche, breakdown, collapse, fall, plunge, ruin, shower, slump, split up), إفلاس (bankruptcy, bust, failure, fall, going into liquidation, insolvency), صوت عالي (thump), ضربة عنيفة (bang, bash, knock, knockdown, slam, smack, swat, swipe, thwack, wallop, whack), دمر (annihilate, blast, break down, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, flatten, immolate, overthrow, prey, pull down, pulverize, ravage, ruin, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wreck), ضغط (bear in mind, compress, compressing, compression, crowd, depress, duress, force, hustle, jam, lay stress on smth., lean, lobby, lobbying, pinch, press, pressure, push, screw, squeeze, strain, stress, telescope, tension), فلس (break, breaking, crash, go bankrupt, mite, peg out, ruin), سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), تحطم (crash, disintegrate, disintegration, shatter, shattering, shiver), تهشم (crash, fall to pieces, fragmentation, shatter, snap), حطم (break, break up, crack, dash, disintegrate, extinguish, shatter, shipwreck, shiver, sink, undo, wrack, wreak, wreck), هدم (blight, demolish, demolition, destroy, destruction, do away with, level, pluck, pull down, sap, take apart, tear, tear down, total), هشم (pull down, pulverize, shatter, stave), هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), هزيمة ساحقة, كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crash, crush, defeat, double, fold, fraction, fracture, fracturing, infringe, pleat, rout, shatter, shattering, smashing, tuck, vanquish, violate), ضربة قوية في التنس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), запращам (aim, dash, drive, hurl, leg it, pitch, project, send, sock, speed, throw, whirl), забивам (drive in, embed, fix, grind into, hammer, jab, knock home, nail, plant, plunge, ram, sink, stick, thrust, thrust in), забиване, голям успех, катастрофа (accident, catastrophe, crash, disaster, fatality, prang, shunt, smash up), с все сила (amain, hammer and tongs, hard, with might and main), с трясък (crash), трясък (bang, chunking, clash, crash, din, hurtle, peal, rattle, slam, thunder), поражение (backdown, baffle, beating, defeat, failure, injury, knockout, lesion, overturn, repulse, reverse, walloping, whipping), фалирам (blow up, break, fail, go, go into liquidation, go phut, go to pieces, liquidate, peg out, smash up), счупване (fraction, fracture), сблъскване (conflict, crash, encounter, foul, impact, jar, jostle, percussion, shock), смазвам (bow down, grease, jam, lubricate, mop up, oil, overbear, overwhelm, prostrate, pulverize, slush, smear, squelch, steamroller, tread down, tread under, unstring, weigh down, whelm), смачквам (crease, crush, jam out, press, ruck, rumple, scrunch, squash, wad), удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), строшавам (fracture), счупвам (bust, fracture, pip, snap), фалит (crash, failure, ruin, smash up). (various references) | |
Chinese | (smashed), 抽杀, 搗碎 , 摜 (fling). (various references) | |
Czech | smeè, zlomit (break, break down, grind away), zlikvidovat (demolish, dispose of, mop up), třesk (boom, clash, crash), roztříštit (fritter, shatter, shiver, splinter, split), rozbít (break, break up, bust, crack, dash, destroy, pitch, shatter, sunder, wreck), prudká rána, nabourat, krach (bust, collapse, failure), bouchnutí (bang, crash, pop, slam, thud, thump), autonehoda (car accident), šlágr (hit, winner). (various references) | |
Danish | knuse (crush, shatter). (various references) | |
Dutch | vermorzelen (crush, shatter), intrappen (crush, shatter). (various references) | |
Esperanto | frakasi (crush, shatter). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sora (crush, shatter), smildra (crush, shatter), knúsa (crush, grind, pulverize, shatter). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرس کردن , منگنه کردن (Perforate, Punch, Stamp), ورشکست شدن (Bust), تصادم (Clash, Collission, Concussion, Shock), خردکردن (Break, Comminute, Crash, Cutdown, Disintegrate, Fragment, Grind, Hack, Hash, Impinge, Infract, Joint, Mangle, Mash, Maul, Mince, Pestle, Shatter, Shiver, Smite, Squelch), خردشدگی , شکست دادن (Defeat, Drub, Floor, Outdo, Skunk, Smite, Trounce, Vanquish, Worst), درهم کوبیدن , درهم شکستن (Breakdown, Crash, Force, Overwhelm, Scrunch, Vanquish), برخورد (Address, Affect, Clash, Conflict, Confliction, Contact, Contiguity, Encounter, Greet, Incidence, Reception, Strike, Tilt), بشدت زدن (Dash). (various references) | |
Finnish | särkeä (break, shatter), pirstoa (break to shivers, dismember, shatter), murskata (break, crush, shatter), lyödä rikki (break), lyödä murskaksi (dash to pieces), lyödä mäsäksi. (various references) | |
French | fracasser, briser. (various references) | |
German | zerschmettern (crush, shatter, to dash to pieces, to shatter, to smash, to smash to pieces). (various references) | |
Greek | σπάζω (break, break up, bust, crack, fracture, go bust, snap), συντρίβω (batter, beat, crash, crush, dash, demolish, grind down, knock the stuffing out of, lick, overwhelm, quash, shatter, shiver, squelch, stun). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכ" (blow, bump, cut, defeat, hit, knock, plague, striking, stroke, swat), מ"לומ" (blow, hit, knock, pound, stroke, thunderclap), מסב" מוצלחת, לשבר (break, crush, demolish, shatter, wreck), ל"יט (ardently, hit, jingle, with passion), ל"תרסק (crash), ל"ת פץ (shatter), ל"שמי" (annihilate, destroy, exterminate, extirpate, lay waste, obliterate, scotch, wipe out), לרסק (crush, mangle, mash), ל תץ (demolish, destroy, disrupt, pull down), ל פץ (dash, detonate, explode, pound, shatter, shipwreck, splinter), חורבן (destruction, devastation, havoc, ravage, wreck), "ת פצות (fragmentation, shattering), "ת 'שות (clash, collision, conflict, crash, dash, encounter, skirmish), פוץ (blowing up, circulated, common, detonation, disruption, exploding, prevalent, ripe, shattering, widespread). (various references) | |
Hungarian | összetörés (wrack, wreck), tönkremenés (crash, doom, ruin, wrack, wreck, wrecking), szerencsétlenség (adversity, amiss, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, fatality, grief, ills, misadventure, misfortune, misgiving, mishap, wretchedness), lecsapás (pounce, precipitation, swoop), krach (wash-out), kemény ütés (smack), heves összeütközés, darabokra törés, összezúzódás (crush), összeomlás (breakdown, bust up, cataclysm, collapse, débâcle, debacle, mouldering, ruin, wreckage). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tabrakan, melumat (pulverize), gecek (catch), ganyang (crush, devour, eat raw, eliminate). (various references) | |
Italian | schiacciare (cave, clash, crack, crepitate, crush, jam, mash, overwhelm, pinch, press, push down, squash, squeeze, squelch, swat). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 割 (10%, assignment, break, crack, cut, dilute, divide, halve, percentage, profit, proportion, rate, ratio, rip, separate, split, unit of ten percent), スマート爆弾 (slice, slide, slider, slider-memory, sliding, smack, smart bomb, smear, smellovision, smile, smiley, Smithsonian Institution, smog, smoke, smoked cheese, smoked salmon, smoker, smooth, smoothing operation, variable autotransformer). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かつ (and, break, crack, cut, dilute, divide, halve, rip, separate, split, thirst, to gain victory, to win, yet), スマッシュ . (various references) | |
Korean | 분쇄 (Comminuting, Crushing, fracture, Pulverizing, smashing). (various references) | |
Manx | smoashal (break, crash, shatter), smoash (crash, smash up), mynvrishey (pulverization, pulverize, shatter, smash up), cragh brishey, brasney (gall, incense, spur), bransey (dash, dash out, to throw violently), bransal (dash, dash out, to throw violently). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashsmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quebrar (basil, be bankrupt, breach, break, chip, crack, crush, disintegrate, disrupt, flaw, fracture, grind, knap, knock in, outbreak, shatter, split, violate), quebra (breach, breaking, cracker, failure, fracture, offscourings, snap, violation, wastage, waste), esmagar (bash, basil, bray, break, bruise, crush, jam, kibble, lead on, mash, meal, overwhelm, pound, press, pulverize, shatter, squash, squelch, suppress, triturate, whelm). (various references) | |
Romanian | spargere (breakage, breaking, burglary, housebreaking, split), sparge (annihilate, batter, break, burst, chip away, chop, crack, crush, cut, dash, destroy, flaw, pick, rip, snap, splinter, split), sfãrâmare (crunch, split), sfãrâma (batter, burst, crack, crackle, crunch, destroy, disrupt, fritter, granulate, grind, knap, mill, ruin, shatter, shiver, split), se sparge (break, burst, chip, comb, crack, flaw, go snap, snap, snap off), zdup (bang, bump, flop, jug, limbo, Nick, quod, thud, thump), zdranc, nimici (annihilate, bear, blight, crush, cut, dash, destroy, do smb. in, exterminate, extinguish, kill, overwhelm, raze, scathe, undo, unmake, wipe out, wither), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), lovi cu putere (swipe, whack), izbi (bash, clash, hit, jar, lash, seize, smite, strike, thrust), doborî (beat, bring, bring low, cut down, fell, floor, grass, ground, hew down, knock down, overcome, overpower, prostrate, strike down, tip), buf (bang, ludicrous, slapstick). (various references) | |
Russian | катастрофа (catastrophe, debacle, earthquake, holocaust), пробивать путь, бить (baste, beat, beaten, belabour, buffet, catch, chastise, chime, club, drub, hit, kicked, kicking, knock, lambaste, larrup, lick, pound, pummel, run across, strike, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whop), битье (beating), биться (fight, palpitate, pulsate), банкротство (bankruptcy, business failures, crash, failure, insolvency), дробить (atomize, comminute, crash, granulate, kibble, mill, spalls), громить (destroy, fulminate, fulminate against), столкновение (clash, collision, conflict, dash, encounter, impact, jarring, jostle, passage at arms, passage of arms, percussion, warfare), раздавить (crush, run down), разбивать вдребезги, разбивать столкновение, разбиваться вдребезги, разгром (debacle, defeat, drubbing, rout, shambles, walloping), разгромить (blitz, rout), врезаться. (various references) | |
Scottish | smuais (marrow, the juice or marrow of bones). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sudar (brush, clash, collision, crash, impact, shock), smrviti (crash, grind, steamroller), smrskati (crush), smeč (spike), slupati (demolish, wreck), razbiti (break, break down, bust up, crack, crash, overwhelm, shatter), razbijanje, propast (bane, calamity, downfall, failure, perdition, precipice, ruin, ruination, wrack, wreck), bankrotstvo (bankruptcy). (various references) | |
Spanish | rotura (break, breakage, breaking, rupture). (various references) | |
Sranan | masi (crush, mast, shatter). (various references) | |
Swedish | krossa (Bray, break, bruise, crash, crunch, crush, dash, flatten, fracture, mill, pulverize, quash, scotch, scrunch, shatter, squelch, steamroller), slå sönder (break to pieces, crash), krock (collision, crash). (various references) | |
Thai | แตกเป็นเสี่ยงๆ, เสียงแตกละเอีย", ชนโครม, ทำให้แตกเป็นเสี่ยงๆ, ทำให้พ่ายแพ้ (cow down, smear), การชน"ังโครม, ความพ่ายแพ้. (various references) | |
Turkish | sert vurmak (slog, slug, wallop, whack), iflas (bankruptcy, bust, crash, failure, in carey street, insolvency, ruin, smash up), çarpışma (action, bump, clash, collision, combat, conflict, encounter, engagement, foul, impact, rencontre, scrimmage, scrum, scrummage, set to, skirmish, smash up), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb), çatırtı (clack, crack, crackle, crackling noise, crash, crunch, scrunch), şangır, şangır şungur, şangırtı, şangırtı ile, başarı (accomplishment, achievement, click, deed, effort, feat, go, hit, joy, performance, prosperity, show, speed, stroke, success, triumph, victory, win), bozguna uğramak (be routed, come a cropper, go smash, smash up), buzlu konyak, çakılmak, gürültüyle (loud, loudly, noisily), yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), iflas etmek (be in carey street, belly up, break, burst up, bust, crash, fail, go bankrupt, go belly up, go bust, go smash, go to rack and ruin, go to the wall, go under), kırılma (break, breakage, breaking, fracture, offence, offense, refracting, refraction, refractive, rupture, split), kaza (accident, borough, casualty, crack up, crash, district, fatality, incident, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, smash up, township, wreck), mahvetmek (bang up, bankrupt, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, canker, cook, corrupt, cut up, damn, destroy, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, queer, ruin, sink, skunk, slaughter, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, wallop, work havoc, wreck), mahvolmak (be destroyed, be perished with, be ruined, canker, go down, go phut, go smash, go to rack and ruin, go to ruin, go to the dogs, go west, lie in ruins, shipwreck, smash up), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, dash, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shatter, shiver, shred, smash in, smash up, Spall, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), parçalanma (being broken, being torn, breakup, crash, disintegration, disjunction, dismemberment, disruption, fragmentation, rent, schism, smash up, split, split up), parçalanmak (break, break to pieces, break up, come apart, crash, crumble, crush, decay, digest, disintegrate, disrupt, fall to pieces, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, rend, rupture, shatter, shiver, shred, Spall, splinter, split, split off), paramparça olmak (be torn to pieces, disintegrate, fall to pieces), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down). (various references) | |
Turkmen | mynjyratmak (shatter), kьl-peekun etmek (break, shatter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стукіт (chatter, clash, clatter, conk, rataplan), розгромити (kill, overwar, wallop, whack), розгром (checkmate, debacle, defeat, frustration, walloping), розоритися (go to hell), розбити вщент (smash up), катастрофа (accident, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, collapse, crash, debacle, wreck), вщент, ламатися (fracture), ламати (break, circumvent, fracture, outbreak), банкрутство (bankruptcy, collapse, crash), повне руйнування. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sầm một cái, sự vỡ ra từng mảnh (fragmentation), sự đập vỡ ra từng mảnh, tiếng vỡ xoảng sự va mạnh, cú đấm thôi sơn sự phá sản. (various references) | |
Welsh | malu (chop, grind, mince), chwilfriwio (shatter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 2. tun. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | comminuam, comminuens, comminuerentur, comminuerunt, comminues, comminuet, comminuetis, comminuetur, comminuisset, comminuit, comminuite, comminuta, comminutus, effregit, effringens. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | gebrecan. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | quasser. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "smash": smashed, smasher, smashers, smashes, smashing, smashingly, smashup, smashups. (additional references) | |
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"Smash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Samadhi, Samah, Samh, Sasho, Sembach, sma, smach, smarsh, smas, smasch, smashs, Smashy, Smersh, smes, smlas, sms, smsa, snah, snash. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "smash" (pronounced sma"sh) |
| 3 | -m a" sh | mash. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: shams. | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-m-s-s" | |
-1 letter: hams, mash, mass, sash, sham. | |
-2 letters: ash, ass, ham, has, mas, sha. | |
-3 letters: ah, am, as, ha, hm, ma, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-m-s-s" | |
+1 letter: chasms, mashes, samshu, shamas, shames, shamos, shamus, shawms. | |
+2 letters: ahimsas, ashrams, asthmas, chiasms, hansoms, hassium, marshes, mashers, mashies, matsahs, messiah, mishaps, sachems, samechs, samekhs, samshus, sashimi, schemas, shaloms, shamans, shammas, shammes, shammos, shamois, shamoys, shmears, smashed, smasher, smashes, smashup, sumachs. | |
+3 letters: ambushes, atheisms, beshames, chamises, chamisos, charisms, chessman, chiasmas, chiasmus, cumshaws, emphases, emphasis, famishes, gamashes, hamsters, harmless, hassiums, kashmirs, khamsins, marishes, marshals, messiahs, mishears, mishmash, misshape, mitsvahs, musquash, phasmids, sambhars, sambhurs, sapphism, sashimis, scampish, schmears, shahdoms, shambles, shammash, shammers, shammies, shamosim, shampoos, shamuses, smallish, smashers, smashing, smashups, stomachs, stramash, swampish, tachisms, tamashas, yashmacs, yashmaks. | |
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