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Adjective smashing has 1 sense
- bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing - very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
Antonym: bad (indirect, via good)
Noun smashing has 1 sense
- smashing, shattering - the act of breaking something into small pieces
--1 is a kind of breakage, break, breaking
Verb smash has 10 senses
- smash, nail, boom, blast - hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"
--1 is one way to hit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- smash, dash - break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over; "Smash a plate"
--2 is one way to break
Sample sentence:
They smash the glass tubes
- bankrupt, ruin, break, smash - reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
--3 is one way to impoverish
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- smash - hit violently; "She smashed her car against the guard rail"
--4 is one way to hit, strike
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- crush, smash, demolish - humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
--5 is one way to humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- bang up, smash up, smash - damage or destroy as if by violence; "The teenager banged up the car of his mother"
--6 is one way to damage
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- smash - hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
--7 is one way to hit
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- smash - collide or strike violently and suddenly; "The motorcycle smashed into the guard rail"
--8 is one way to collide, clash
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- smash - overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful); "The police smashed the drug ring after they were tipped off"
--9 is one way to demolish, destroy
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- smash - break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow; "The window smashed"
--10 is one way to break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
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