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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



... some time, until the weight behind forced some part down and crunched its way through in one irresistible push; the other part rose over the resistance and rolled like an avalanche over and over, smashing itself into huge blocks which were forced into a rampart fifty feet high, when the enormous weight broke the ice platform on which it was piled, and the whole moved majestically off towards the Volga. ...
— With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia • John Ward
... Constitutional Democrats, popularly known as the "Cadets," furiously lashed Premier Sturmer and quoted the irrefutable evidence of his pro-Germanism and of his corruption. Sturmer reeled under the smashing attack. In his rage he forbade the publication of Miliukov's speech, but hundreds of thousands of copies of it were secretly printed and distributed. Every one recognized that there was war between the Duma and the government, and notwithstanding the criticism of the Socialists, who naturally ...
— Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy • John Spargo
... But this will be the end of our civilisation, when people will not work because work has become so intolerable to their senses, it nauseates them too much, they would rather starve. THEN we shall see the hammer used only for smashing, then we shall see it. Yet here we are—we have the opportunity to make beautiful factories, ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... sickeningly. It was idle, they all felt, to hope that the miracle of the Marne would be repeated. But it was: again, as in 1914, the tide turned at the Marne. The French and the American troops struck their sudden smashing blow on the exposed flank of the enemy and, with the almost inconceivable rapidity of a dream, the whole aspect of ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Easton said. "I don't think there is the least doubt about that, but I should not think there will be any fighting this side of Metemmeh; it will be some where between that and Khartoum. The Mahdi cannot help fighting after smashing up Hicks and giving himself out as invincible. He would lose his hold altogether of the people if he did not come down and fight. Of course there is no doubt about the result; but, judging from the way ...
— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty


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