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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



... half of resolute practising makes you not at all sorry for an oasis in the counting, which you inaugurate (or whatever you do when it's an oasis) by smashing the top coal and making a great blaze. And then you go ever so close, ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... that or not was not evident, but they certainly came within a few inches of smashing the frail canoe. Only John's skill prevented it. As the rowboat swept past one of the oars fairly snatched the paddle ...
— Jack Ranger's Western Trip - From Boarding School to Ranch and Range • Clarence Young
... to Kala Khan this time. Nels' smashing drive at the throat had carried the tusker from under the Arab's feet. His rumbling challenge had seemed to take up the scream of the horse; it ended in the piercing squeal ...
— Son of Power • Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
... smashing of the memorable corner has passed into history. While Fluette's brokers were buying and sending the price soaring—skyrocketing is more descriptive, though—Felix Page was selling in quantities that bewildered and, since it was Page, alarmed the bulls. Insurance on the lakes had ceased ...
— The Paternoster Ruby • Charles Edmonds Walk
... the objective of smashing the militarism imposed by war lords upon their enslaved peoples the objective of liberating the subjugated Nations—the objective of establishing and securing freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various


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