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Smash

Definition: Smash

Smash

Adverb

1. With a loud crash; "the car went smash through the fence".

Noun

1. 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".

Verb

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Smash

DomainDefinition

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Smash

(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

  1. "Time to Relax" (Offspring)
  2. "Nitro (Youth Energy)" (Offspring)
  3. "Bad Habit" (Offspring)
  4. "Gotta Get Away" (Offspring)
  5. "Genocide" (Offspring)
  6. "Something to Believe In" (Offspring)
  7. "Come Out and Play" (Offspring)
  8. "Self-Esteem" (Offspring)
  9. "It'll Be a Long Time" (Offspring)
  10. "Killboy Powerhead" (Didjits)
  11. "What Happened to You?" (Offspring)
  12. "So Alone" (Offspring)
  13. "Not the One" (Offspring)
  14. "Smash" (Offspring)

Personnel

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. 6

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Smash."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: 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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

SMASH

EnglishSimple, many and self-healingN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Smash

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Smash

ContextSynonyms 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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Smash

English words defined with "smash": break apart, break up, bust upcrashPashsmashinglywrack, wreck. (references)
Specialty definitions using "smash": aliasing bugcase sensitivityfandango on core, fold casegronkKing Cashmemory leak, memory smashprecedence lossagesmash case, smash sum, stale pointer bugunwind the stackwalk 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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Modern Usage: Smash

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Smash

DomainTitle

Books

  • 1999-2000 Smash Pop Hits: Easy Piano (reference)

  • Customers for Keeps: The Network System to Smash Your Profit Barrier (reference)

  • Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows: Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change 1918-38 (reference)

  • Smash and Grab (reference)

  • Smash Pop Hits 2002: Easy Piano (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Smash Cuts! Totally Twisted Shorts Fest (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

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Image Slideshow: Smash

Photos:
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Photo Album: Smash

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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.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Smash".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
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.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Smash

AuthorQuotation

Seneca

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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Historic Usage: Smash

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Smash

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Smash

SpeakerPhrase(s)

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Smash

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)47.76%22420,130
Noun (singular)39.23%18422,714
Lexical Verb (base form)12.58%5944,010
Noun (proper)0.43%2245,945
                    Total100.00%469N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Smash

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.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "smash": smash-andgrab, smash-and-grab, smash-and-grab raid, smash-and-grabbable, smash-hit, smash-ins, smash-style, smash-up.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Smash

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

smash mouth

958

hits.com smash

58

super smash bros melee

835

bros cheat code melee smash super

55

super smash bros

563

brother code melee smash super

53

smash

530

fruit smash

52

super smash brother melee

501

hit smash ultimate

48

super smash brother

401

code for super smash bros

44

bros cheat melee smash super

282

lt smash

42

smash hit

246

super smash bros rom

42

super smash

215

all star smash mouth

41

smash bros

171

smash melee

39

brother cheat melee smash super

169

super smash melee

38

super smash bros cheat

144

rom super smash brother

38

smash brother

135

smash tv

37

super smash brother cheat

101

3 bros smash super

35

brother cube game smash super

95

brother cheat code melee smash super

31

smash mouth lyrics

94

super smash brother code

29

bros code melee smash super

94

hulk smash

29

smash bros melee

65

super smash bros cheat code

29

64 bros nintendo rom smash super

60

sega smash pack

29

smash brother melee

60

super smash bros.com

28
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Smash

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 , (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 

  

(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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Smash

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

2. tun. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

comminuam, comminuens, comminuerentur, comminuerunt, comminues, comminuet, comminuetis, comminuetur, comminuisset, comminuit, comminuite, comminuta, comminutus, effregit, effringens. (various references)

Old English450-1100

gebrecan. (various references)

Old French900-1400

quasser. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Smash

Derivations

Words beginning with "smash": smashed, smasher, smashers, smashes, smashing, smashingly, smashup, smashups. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Smash"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "smash" (pronounced sma"sh)
3-m a" shmash.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Smash

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Usage Frequency
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Abbreviations
19. Acronyms
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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