smash
♦ smash /sm'æʃ/ (smashes smashing smashed)
1 [VERB] V n, V into n
If you smash something or if it smashes, it breaks into many pieces, for example when it is hit or dropped.
Someone smashed a bottle...
Two or three glasses fell off and smashed into pieces.
= break
2 [VERB] V through n, V way prep/adv
If you smash through a wall, gate, or door, you get through it by hitting and breaking it.
The demonstrators used trucks to smash through embassy gates...
Soldiers smashed their way into his office.
3 [VERB] V prep/adv, V n prep
If something smashes or is smashed against something solid, it moves very fast and with great force against it.
The bottle smashed against a wall...
He smashed his fist into Anthony's face.
4 [VERB] V n
To smash a political group or system means to deliberately destroy it. (INFORMAL)
Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed.
5
see also smashed, smashingsmash down
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), also V n P
If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground.
The crowd tried to smash down the door of the police station.
= break downsmash hit (smash hits)
[N-COUNT]
A smash hit or a smash is a very popular show, play, or song.
The show was a smash hit.smash up
1 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), V n P
If you smash something up, you completely destroy it by hitting it and breaking it into many pieces.
She took revenge on her ex-boyfriend by smashing up his home...
You could smash the drawer up with a hammer...
2 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron)
If you smash up your car, you damage it by crashing it into something.
All you told me was that he'd smashed up yet another car.
1 [VERB] V n, V into n
If you smash something or if it smashes, it breaks into many pieces, for example when it is hit or dropped.
Someone smashed a bottle...
Two or three glasses fell off and smashed into pieces.
= break
2 [VERB] V through n, V way prep/adv
If you smash through a wall, gate, or door, you get through it by hitting and breaking it.
The demonstrators used trucks to smash through embassy gates...
Soldiers smashed their way into his office.
3 [VERB] V prep/adv, V n prep
If something smashes or is smashed against something solid, it moves very fast and with great force against it.
The bottle smashed against a wall...
He smashed his fist into Anthony's face.
4 [VERB] V n
To smash a political group or system means to deliberately destroy it. (INFORMAL)
Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed.
5
see also smashed, smashingsmash down
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), also V n P
If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground.
The crowd tried to smash down the door of the police station.
= break downsmash hit (smash hits)
[N-COUNT]
A smash hit or a smash is a very popular show, play, or song.
The show was a smash hit.smash up
1 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), V n P
If you smash something up, you completely destroy it by hitting it and breaking it into many pieces.
She took revenge on her ex-boyfriend by smashing up his home...
You could smash the drawer up with a hammer...
2 [PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron)
If you smash up your car, you damage it by crashing it into something.
All you told me was that he'd smashed up yet another car.