I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big/smash/number 1 etc hit
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the Beatles’ greatest hits
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Which band had a hit with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’?
break/smash to bits
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The vase fell and smashed to bits on the concrete floor.
smash hit
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They had a smash hit with their first single.
smash/shatter a record (= beat it easily )
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She smashed the record by a massive 28 seconds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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Then the front door was smashed down and people streamed into the house.
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It smashed down through the top of her skull on Christmas Eve while she was outside playing with friends.
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With a great, grunting effort he brought his shield smashing down , like an axe, at the King.
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The projectile was imperfectly aimed but exploded in Verdun, smashing down part of the Archbishop's palace.
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Forster smashed down the locking lever, and pulled for all his worth.
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She lashed out with her tail, overturning ships, smashing down a lighthouse.
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She smashed down hard against it with the hammer, and the window shook, tiny cracks appeared like earthquake faults.
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In almost all areas of modern life, the internet revolution has smashed down barriers and blurred boundaries.
in
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Its china face was smashed in , and one blue eye had disappeared.
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The door was smashed in so often that it had to be bricked up.
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Around 4.00 am Vadgama was buried and had his face smashed in with a shovel.
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Only one very quiet pub and no shop windows to smash in after they've got drunk.
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There was a thunderous crash as the door was smashed in .
up
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I see they didn't smash up your discs and equipment Pete.
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Most of the 80 passengers and crew members watched safely from shore as the ship smashed up .
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Do teenagers whose talents have been recognised at school get the urge to smash up the premises?
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Made his name barging into their clubs and smashing up their meeting halls.
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It's an unreal London where barristers can smash up restaurants without getting into trouble with the police or the Bar Council.
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They also smashed up the peasants' illicit vodka stills.
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And the stage was in a terrible mess, all blood and vomit, and the scenery all smashed up .
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He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.
■ NOUN
bottle
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He just smashed the bottle down across my hand.
car
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In one attack his invalid car was stolen and smashed .
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In San Jose, about 8,000 people packed into a few downtown blocks, overturning cars and smashing windows.
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Read in studio Two joyriders leapt out of a moving car causing it to smash into a house.
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Thieves broke into five cars , smashing the nearside windows and taking radio cassette players and cash.
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Too knackered to enjoy it, I crawled into my car and smashed it sedately into a concrete pillar.
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Read in studio A stolen car has smashed into a bus full of passengers, and burst into flames.
door
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Something smashed hard against the door from the other side.
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They smashed the door in and rushed inside.
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But yesterday he found the would-be thieves had smashed the door lock in an attempt to break in.
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The windows of the main building were smashed , the doors off their hinges, the locks broken.
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The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves.
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I just wanted to go out and smash a door down.
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They broke in, smashing windows and doors and draping a flag out a second-floor window.
face
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He could just imagine the Woman hitting him, smashing at his face in the dark with the butt of her gun.
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The police were right behind, and a cop tackled him, smashing his face into the sidewalk.
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Demonstrators smashed in the face , hit with rocks.
fist
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It had hurt him, as if some one had smashed a fist into his own face.
glass
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He seized another wooden leg and smashed the glass in the nearest cases with it.
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It was claimed that they poured their drinks over the counter and then smashed their beer glasses .
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But they denied throwing and smashing their beer glasses at the pub.
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During one of these rituals, I dropped and smashed one of the glasses , ruining my set.
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Glass target: Vandals smashed a stained glass window worth £100 at a house in Willow Road, Northallerton.
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He slipped on the stairs and smashed a glass panel as he tried to steady himself.
head
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A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head , smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.
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Whatever the reason, Toks' tighthead failed to get down and his head smashed against his opposition's shoulder.
piece
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To prove a point I smashed a piece open and applied the magnets.
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There are only perfect pieces or smashed pieces.
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Telling me the strangest things sometimes, evil things - till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces .
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Anything that gets in his way is smashed to pieces .
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Their car had hardly turned the corner when the mob arrived and smashed the house to pieces .
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The Sierra was smashed into four pieces in the accident.
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Would the idyll she had dreamed of be there again, not smashed to pieces as it seemed to be?
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It had been smashed to pieces because Timothy Gedge had followed them.
record
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In track, only world record-holder Wang Junxia has had staying power since smashing world records in 1993. 16.
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This year's results will hopefully smash all previous records and break through the £50k barrier.
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Nineteen ninety-five smashed all records for mergers and acquisitions at home and abroad.
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He smashed the course record with a superb six-under-par 65.
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In 1995, the stock market smashed more records than a disgruntled disk jockey.
skull
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A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head, smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.
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They smashed its skull ... and then laid it back where they found it.
smithereens
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If my anger breaks the glass, I could be smashed to smithereens .
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There were the remains of a ship in a bottle, smashed to smithereens , and a rubber toy Bowie knife.
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He says an overweight lorry in a crash will smash a car to smithereens .
wall
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It smashed into a wall , showering coins.
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It reminded him of the lizards smashed on his hotel wall .
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But it's the electronic fist of technology which is smashing the walls between human and human.
way
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He storms round the garden and then tries to smash his way back into the house.
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In these situations the Pump Wagon sustains D6 strength 6 hits due to damage sustained as it crunches and smashes its way through.
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It was used by a gang ... who smashed their way into two pubs early this morning.
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Without this intimidating ring of fire the herd might easily smash its way out.
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Read in studio Thieves have used a mechanical digger to smash their way into a supermarket and steal a safe.
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Officers smashed their way into the bungalow where they found the victims' bodies in separate rooms.
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The raiders smashed their way into the trailer to silence Bob's barking before forcing the shop door.
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I imagined Mark and me high on the Walker, on our sixth day, smashing our way up the face.
window
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The office window had been smashed .
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Further fights broke out around the pub, and windows were smashed .
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The door was locked, but one of the big blue-glass plate windows was smashed .
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A window was smashed with an emergency escape hammer and six prisoners leapt out as the coach slowed.
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Crook in particular was anxious to leave the ground floor flat because his windows had been smashed and he had been attacked.
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Numerous assaults, cases of window smashing and the dissemination of graffiti continued unabated.
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The outer windows had been smashed and the cut stone had been severely fissured.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crash/collide/smash etc head-on
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But that image collided head-on with life last month.
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He and Carter were doomed to collide head-on .
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Shortly after the £5 million junction was opened, two trains collided head-on killing four people and injuring 22.
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The cab control car of a commuter train being pushed from the rear collided head-on with an Amtrak diesel locomotive.
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They can collide head-on with what we believe to be right.
smash/blow etc sth to smithereens
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He says an overweight lorry in a crash will smash a car to smithereens .
smash/rip/tear sth to pieces
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And having got under them, he can't half tear them to pieces .
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Brandon Thomas opted to unveil his Aunt away from London fearful that the capital's theatre critics would tear it to pieces .
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He was thrown from his chariot and his horses tore him to pieces and devoured him.
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I had been given the power to obliterate, to steal a body from its grave and tear it to pieces .
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If Hyde returns while I am writing this confession, he will tear it to pieces to annoy me.
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Telling me the strangest things sometimes, evil things - till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces .
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We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Firefighters smashed a bedroom window and rescued a two-year-old girl.
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Her camera was smashed by soldiers when she tried to take photographs.
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I heard something smash . What broke?
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Police authorities say they have smashed a sophisticated insurance fraud ring.
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The boat hit the rocks and was smashed to pieces by the waves.
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The bottle rolled off the table and smashed to pieces on the floor.
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The burglars entered the house by smashing a window.
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The stock market rose so quickly it smashed all previous records.
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The vase fell and smashed into a million tiny pieces.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And they drank a toast and smashed the Dixie cups underfoot and turned out the light and went to lunch.
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It smashed through the gates, tearing them off their hinges as though they were made of plastic.
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No force of nature, nothing paradoxical or demonic, he had no drive for smashing through the masks of appearances.
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She drove three kicks into his shins and smashed her handbag into the side of his head.
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The violence apparently escalated as white and black youths turned over a bus and began smashing shop windows.
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They used to smash it down, and it inevitably wound up spilling all over the car.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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His first wife died in a car smash while he was driving.
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Officially, he died in a car smash on the border.
hit
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It may not be the London Palladium but it is a smash hit !
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Have a great day and we hope your dot.com venture is a smash hit .
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Daly has been, quite literally, the smash hit of the Masters with the crowds, attracting the biggest galleries.
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Not since the surprise smash hit of the year cast a rosy glow over Shore's vehicle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Suddenly, there was a smash in the kitchen.
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the latest Broadway smash
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gives it a smash , gives it a rip.
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Julia Roberts' beauty didn't stop Pretty Woman becoming a smash at the box office.