transcription, транскрипция: [ smæʃ ]
( smashes, smashing, smashed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you smash something or if it smashes , it breaks into many pieces, for example when it is hit or dropped.
Someone smashed a bottle...
Two or three glasses fell off and smashed into pieces.
= break
VERB : V n , V into n
2.
If you smash through a wall, gate, or door, you get through it by hitting and breaking it.
The demonstrators used trucks to smash through embassy gates...
Soldiers smashed their way into his office.
VERB : V through n , V way prep / adv
3.
If something smashes or is smashed against something solid, it moves very fast and with great force against it.
The bottle smashed against a wall...
He smashed his fist into Anthony’s face.
VERB : V prep / adv , V n prep
4.
To smash a political group or system means to deliberately destroy it. ( INFORMAL )
Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed.
VERB : V n
5.
see also smashed , smashing