verb used with objectto break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter He smashed the vase against the defeat, disappoint, or disillusion hit or strike someone or something with overthrow or destroy something considered as harmful They smashed the drug ruin financially The depression smashed Badminton, Table Tennis. to hit a ball or shuttlecock overhead or overhand with a hard downward motion, causing the shot to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp used without objectto break to pieces from a violent blow or dash with a shattering or crushing force or with great violence; crash usually followed by against, into, through, etc..to become financially ruined or bankrupt often followed by up.to flatten and compress the signatures of a book in a press before act or an instance of smashing or sound of such a blow, hit, or destructive collision, as between smashed or shattered process or state of collapse, ruin, or destruction the total smash that another war would surely failure or drink made of brandy, or other liquor, with sugar, water, mint, and Badminton, Table Tennis. an overhead or overhand stroke in which the ball or shuttlecock is hit with a hard, downward motion causing it to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp ball hit with such a relating to, or constituting a great success That composer has written many smash of smash1synonym study For smashOther words for smashOther words from smashsmashable, adjectiveWords Nearby smashsmart weaponssmartweedsmart woolsmartysmarty-pantssmashsmash-and-grabsmashedsmashersmash Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023How to use smash in a sentenceCongratulations to Jane Fraser on smashing Wall Street’s glass Apple Watch is not, perhaps, a smash hit on the scale of the iPhone or the iPod, it’s by far the best-selling smartwatch in the the series debuted in the UK in 2011 and became a smash hit, it paved the way for it to become an international sensation and therefore create many you find your parked car, you notice the smashed conventional nuclear power plants generate energy by splitting atoms, nuclear fusion involves smashing two atoms Vicious is stomping all over Steve Jones, about to smash in his guitar again.At the end of the session, when we listened back to all we had laid down that day, I was sure I had a smash sexual liberation, 1970s groups like the Gay Liberation Front, and slogans like “smash the church/smash the state.”Every aspiring DJ could smash and grab himself a mixer and some there were those songs that were either too half-baked or half-hearted to even fool us into turning them into smash moment the bait was touched, down would come the heavy timber—smash—on the tiger's head.“Confound it, no;” rejoined Mr. Simmery, stopping for an instant to smash a fly with the made a fool of a girl I knowshe is married, though; it didnt smash her affections very deep; married rich, hearin' him, it fair knocked the stories on the heid aboot him bein' oot to smash the hame, an' religion an' sic sorry, drandma, 'cause I spilt the cream, and I'm awfil glad I didn't smash the Dictionary definitions for smashverbto break into pieces violently and usually noisilywhen intr, foll by against, through, into, etc to throw or crash against vigorously, causing shattering he smashed the equipment; it smashed against the walltr to hit forcefully and suddenlytr tennis squash badminton to hit the ball fast and powerfully, esp with an overhead stroketr to defeat or wreck persons, theories, etctr to make bankruptintr to collide violently; crashintr often foll by up to go bankruptsmash someone's face in informal to beat someone severelynounan act, instance, or sound of smashing or the state of being smasheda violent collision, esp of vehiclesa total failure or collapse, as of a businesstennis squash badminton a fast and powerful overhead strokeinformal something having popular successin combination smash-hitslang loose change; coinsOrigin of smash1C18 probably from sm ack ² + m ashSee also smash-upDerived forms of smashsmashable, adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012