SMASH


Meaning of SMASH in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a big/smash/number 1 etc hit

the Beatles’ greatest hits

Which band had a hit with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’?

break/smash to bits

The vase fell and smashed to bits on the concrete floor.

smash hit

They had a smash hit with their first single.

smash/shatter a record (= beat it easily )

She smashed the record by a massive 28 seconds.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

down

Then the front door was smashed down and people streamed into the house.

It smashed down through the top of her skull on Christmas Eve while she was outside playing with friends.

With a great, grunting effort he brought his shield smashing down , like an axe, at the King.

The projectile was imperfectly aimed but exploded in Verdun, smashing down part of the Archbishop's palace.

Forster smashed down the locking lever, and pulled for all his worth.

She lashed out with her tail, overturning ships, smashing down a lighthouse.

She smashed down hard against it with the hammer, and the window shook, tiny cracks appeared like earthquake faults.

In almost all areas of modern life, the internet revolution has smashed down barriers and blurred boundaries.

in

Its china face was smashed in , and one blue eye had disappeared.

The door was smashed in so often that it had to be bricked up.

Around 4.00 am Vadgama was buried and had his face smashed in with a shovel.

Only one very quiet pub and no shop windows to smash in after they've got drunk.

There was a thunderous crash as the door was smashed in .

up

I see they didn't smash up your discs and equipment Pete.

Most of the 80 passengers and crew members watched safely from shore as the ship smashed up .

Do teenagers whose talents have been recognised at school get the urge to smash up the premises?

Made his name barging into their clubs and smashing up their meeting halls.

It's an unreal London where barristers can smash up restaurants without getting into trouble with the police or the Bar Council.

They also smashed up the peasants' illicit vodka stills.

And the stage was in a terrible mess, all blood and vomit, and the scenery all smashed up .

He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.

■ NOUN

bottle

He just smashed the bottle down across my hand.

car

In one attack his invalid car was stolen and smashed .

In San Jose, about 8,000 people packed into a few downtown blocks, overturning cars and smashing windows.

Read in studio Two joyriders leapt out of a moving car causing it to smash into a house.

Thieves broke into five cars , smashing the nearside windows and taking radio cassette players and cash.

Too knackered to enjoy it, I crawled into my car and smashed it sedately into a concrete pillar.

Read in studio A stolen car has smashed into a bus full of passengers, and burst into flames.

door

Something smashed hard against the door from the other side.

They smashed the door in and rushed inside.

But yesterday he found the would-be thieves had smashed the door lock in an attempt to break in.

The windows of the main building were smashed , the doors off their hinges, the locks broken.

The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves.

I just wanted to go out and smash a door down.

They broke in, smashing windows and doors and draping a flag out a second-floor window.

face

He could just imagine the Woman hitting him, smashing at his face in the dark with the butt of her gun.

The police were right behind, and a cop tackled him, smashing his face into the sidewalk.

Demonstrators smashed in the face , hit with rocks.

fist

It had hurt him, as if some one had smashed a fist into his own face.

glass

He seized another wooden leg and smashed the glass in the nearest cases with it.

It was claimed that they poured their drinks over the counter and then smashed their beer glasses .

But they denied throwing and smashing their beer glasses at the pub.

During one of these rituals, I dropped and smashed one of the glasses , ruining my set.

Glass target: Vandals smashed a stained glass window worth £100 at a house in Willow Road, Northallerton.

He slipped on the stairs and smashed a glass panel as he tried to steady himself.

head

A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head , smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.

Whatever the reason, Toks' tighthead failed to get down and his head smashed against his opposition's shoulder.

piece

To prove a point I smashed a piece open and applied the magnets.

There are only perfect pieces or smashed pieces.

Telling me the strangest things sometimes, evil things - till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces .

Anything that gets in his way is smashed to pieces .

Their car had hardly turned the corner when the mob arrived and smashed the house to pieces .

The Sierra was smashed into four pieces in the accident.

Would the idyll she had dreamed of be there again, not smashed to pieces as it seemed to be?

It had been smashed to pieces because Timothy Gedge had followed them.

record

In track, only world record-holder Wang Junxia has had staying power since smashing world records in 1993. 16.

This year's results will hopefully smash all previous records and break through the £50k barrier.

Nineteen ninety-five smashed all records for mergers and acquisitions at home and abroad.

He smashed the course record with a superb six-under-par 65.

In 1995, the stock market smashed more records than a disgruntled disk jockey.

skull

A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head, smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.

They smashed its skull ... and then laid it back where they found it.

smithereens

If my anger breaks the glass, I could be smashed to smithereens .

There were the remains of a ship in a bottle, smashed to smithereens , and a rubber toy Bowie knife.

He says an overweight lorry in a crash will smash a car to smithereens .

wall

It smashed into a wall , showering coins.

It reminded him of the lizards smashed on his hotel wall .

But it's the electronic fist of technology which is smashing the walls between human and human.

way

He storms round the garden and then tries to smash his way back into the house.

In these situations the Pump Wagon sustains D6 strength 6 hits due to damage sustained as it crunches and smashes its way through.

It was used by a gang ... who smashed their way into two pubs early this morning.

Without this intimidating ring of fire the herd might easily smash its way out.

Read in studio Thieves have used a mechanical digger to smash their way into a supermarket and steal a safe.

Officers smashed their way into the bungalow where they found the victims' bodies in separate rooms.

The raiders smashed their way into the trailer to silence Bob's barking before forcing the shop door.

I imagined Mark and me high on the Walker, on our sixth day, smashing our way up the face.

window

The office window had been smashed .

Further fights broke out around the pub, and windows were smashed .

The door was locked, but one of the big blue-glass plate windows was smashed .

A window was smashed with an emergency escape hammer and six prisoners leapt out as the coach slowed.

Crook in particular was anxious to leave the ground floor flat because his windows had been smashed and he had been attacked.

Numerous assaults, cases of window smashing and the dissemination of graffiti continued unabated.

The outer windows had been smashed and the cut stone had been severely fissured.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

crash/collide/smash etc head-on

But that image collided head-on with life last month.

He and Carter were doomed to collide head-on .

Shortly after the £5 million junction was opened, two trains collided head-on killing four people and injuring 22.

The cab control car of a commuter train being pushed from the rear collided head-on with an Amtrak diesel locomotive.

They can collide head-on with what we believe to be right.

smash/blow etc sth to smithereens

He says an overweight lorry in a crash will smash a car to smithereens .

smash/rip/tear sth to pieces

And having got under them, he can't half tear them to pieces .

Brandon Thomas opted to unveil his Aunt away from London fearful that the capital's theatre critics would tear it to pieces .

He was thrown from his chariot and his horses tore him to pieces and devoured him.

I had been given the power to obliterate, to steal a body from its grave and tear it to pieces .

If Hyde returns while I am writing this confession, he will tear it to pieces to annoy me.

Telling me the strangest things sometimes, evil things - till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces .

We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Firefighters smashed a bedroom window and rescued a two-year-old girl.

Her camera was smashed by soldiers when she tried to take photographs.

I heard something smash . What broke?

Police authorities say they have smashed a sophisticated insurance fraud ring.

The boat hit the rocks and was smashed to pieces by the waves.

The bottle rolled off the table and smashed to pieces on the floor.

The burglars entered the house by smashing a window.

The stock market rose so quickly it smashed all previous records.

The vase fell and smashed into a million tiny pieces.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And they drank a toast and smashed the Dixie cups underfoot and turned out the light and went to lunch.

It smashed through the gates, tearing them off their hinges as though they were made of plastic.

No force of nature, nothing paradoxical or demonic, he had no drive for smashing through the masks of appearances.

She drove three kicks into his shins and smashed her handbag into the side of his head.

The violence apparently escalated as white and black youths turned over a bus and began smashing shop windows.

They used to smash it down, and it inevitably wound up spilling all over the car.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

car

His first wife died in a car smash while he was driving.

Officially, he died in a car smash on the border.

hit

It may not be the London Palladium but it is a smash hit !

Have a great day and we hope your dot.com venture is a smash hit .

Daly has been, quite literally, the smash hit of the Masters with the crowds, attracting the biggest galleries.

Not since the surprise smash hit of the year cast a rosy glow over Shore's vehicle.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Suddenly, there was a smash in the kitchen.

the latest Broadway smash

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Gives it a smash , gives it a rip.

Julia Roberts' beauty didn't stop Pretty Woman becoming a smash at the box office.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.