Antonyms for smash
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : smash |
| Phonetic Transcription : smæʃ |
Definition of smash
Origin :- 1759, "break to pieces," earlier "kick downstairs" (c.1700), probably of imitative origin (cf. smack (v.), mash (v.), crush (v.)). Meaning "act with crushing force" is from 1813; that of "strike violently" is from 1835. Tennis sense is from 1882. Smash-and-grab (adj.) is first attested 1927.
- noun collision; defeat
- noun great success
- verb break into pieces
- verb defeat, destroy
- I am sorry he made such a smash at last, but it is all that could be expected.
- Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
- Don't go to smash, Dick, just at the beginning of your life.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- You'll be joggled in this crowd, an' break 'em all to smash.
- Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
- Ask your sister to marry me first, and smash you up afterwards.
- Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
- I felt an absurd desire to smash it, for the impudent thing had been running all the while.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- Every now and then the awakened people will get up and smash you.'
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- "Smash him, Sam—smash in his nut for him," piped the smallest Micky cheerfully.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- Her husband lost all his money on a race, and came to smash, as you English say.
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
- Do you want to start the car and have it smash into something?
- Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
- No smash, however, happened, either to me or to Madame de Mauban.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope
Synonyms for smash
- accident
- annihilate
- bang
- bash
- belt
- blast
- blow
- boom
- break to smithereens
- break up
- breakdown
- breaking
- breakup
- burst
- clap
- clobber
- collapse
- collide
- crack
- crack-up
- crash
- crush
- debacle
- decimate
- demolish
- destruct
- destruction
- disaster
- disintegrate
- disrupt
- downfall
- failure
- fracture
- fragment
- hit
- knockout
- lay in ruins
- lay waste
- make mincemeat of
- overthrow
- overturn
- pile-up
- pound
- powder
- pulverize
- put out of action
- put out of commission
- raze
- rive
- ruin
- scrunch
- sensation
- shatter
- shattering
- shiver
- slam
- slug
- smash-up
- sock
- splinter
- squash
- squish
- tear down
- topple
- trash
- tumble
- wallop
- welt
- whack
- wham
- wow
- wreck
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