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Smashing   /smˈæʃɪŋ/   Listen
Smashing

adjective
1.
Very good.  Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell.  "A neat sports car" , "Had a great time at the party" , "You look simply smashing"
noun
1.
The act of breaking something into small pieces.  Synonym: shattering.


Smash

verb
(past & past part. smashed; pres. part. smashing)
1.
Hit hard.  Synonyms: blast, boom, nail.
2.
Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over.  Synonym: dash.
3.
Reduce to bankruptcy.  Synonyms: bankrupt, break, ruin.  "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
4.
Hit violently.
5.
Humiliate or depress completely.  Synonyms: crush, demolish.  "The death of her son smashed her"
6.
Damage or destroy as if by violence.  Synonyms: bang up, smash up.
7.
Hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke.
8.
Collide or strike violently and suddenly.
9.
Overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful).
10.
Break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow.



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"Smashing" Quotes from Famous Books



... my beacons. I have had to put up a few to help me in and out of the rivers. Early this year a Celebes trader becalmed in a prau was watching him at it. He steamed the gunboat full tilt at two of them, one after another, smashing them to pieces, and then lowered a boat on purpose to pull out a third, which I had a lot of trouble six months ago to stick up in the middle of a mudflat for a tide mark. Did you ever hear of anything ...
— 'Twixt Land & Sea • Joseph Conrad
... for the first time since 1861 the House of Representatives passed into the control of that party. The financial depression plainly operated to the great advantage of the Democrats, but in allowing Tilden to pre-empt the reform issue when men were intent upon smashing rings, the Republicans opened the door for their destruction. "They [the Republican leaders] have apparently believed the people would submit to anything and everything," said the Times, "and that the party was indestructible. If a newspaper warned them in a friendly but firm spirit ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
... the passionate smashing of the negative as before; but that did not happen again; and then he wondered if it was being put straight into the rack with the others, if the damage to the locker had been discovered at last. He never knew. The door opened. The red glow showed for a moment ...
— The Camera Fiend • E.W. Hornung
... that they could not rush the house, kept up a siege from the ambush of the pines. Bullets rattled like hailstones against the thick brick walls of the house, and several times the smashing of glass told that windows had been shot in. Harry's blood now grew feverishly hot and his anger mounted with it. It was intolerable that these outlaws should attack people in their own homes. Lying almost flat on the floor of the portico he reloaded his ...
— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler
... and the Russian girl: dust and smoke obscured the place where the mob raged from floor to floor in a frenzy of destruction, tearing out fixtures, telephones, window-sashes, smashing tables, bar fixtures, mirrors, ripping the curtains from the windows and the very carpets from the floor in their overwhelming rage against this ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers


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