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Smashed   /smæʃt/   Listen
verb
Smash  v. t.  (past & past part. smashed; pres. part. smashing)  
1.
To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. "Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces."
2.
(Lawn Tennis) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke.


Smash  v. i.  To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.





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"Smashed" Quotes from Famous Books



... till my father smashed a pailful of cranberries, and rubbed my eyes with them,' replied the wolverine. 'But if you like to go and gather some of the berries I will do just as he did, and you will soon be able to see as ...
— The Brown Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... severed her inward parts, he pierced her heart, He overcame her and cut off her life; He cast down her body and stood upon it ... And with merciless club he smashed her skull. He cut through the channels of her blood, And he made the north wind to bear it away into ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie
... this affair pass unnoticed, at least for the time. I'll pay for the broken table and its contents, and a proper charge for the rooms for the few hours they've been occupied. I overturned the table. As for the rest—how I came to be here, and what became of the occupants, and why the furniture was smashed, and why I have a slight contusion in my cheek, and anything else occurring to the management as requiring explanation, just ...
— The Cab of the Sleeping Horse • John Reed Scott
... are!" cried Mr. Bouncer; "why a dove-tart is what mortals call a pigeon-pie. I ain't much in Tennyson's line, but it strikes me that dove-tarts are more poetical than the other thing; spread-eagle is a barn-door fowl smashed out flat, and made jolly with mushroom sauce, and no end of good things. I don't know how they squash it, but I should say that they sit upon it; I daresay, if we were to inquire, we should find that they kept a fat feller on purpose. But you just come, and try ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede
... first book, and one which we think is peculiar to it, is the harsh treatment which the eccentricities of the inhabitants of certain towns appear to have met with at the hands of their fellow-residents. No less than three people are "smashed,"—the Old Man of Whitehaven "who danced a quadrille with a Raven;" the Old Person of Buda; and the Old Man with a gong "who bumped at it all the day long," though in the last-named case we admit that there was considerable provocation. Before quitting ...
— Nonsense Books • Edward Lear


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