Definitions of smash:
- noun: a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
- noun: a conspicuous success
Example: "That new Broadway show is a real smasher"
- noun: the act of colliding with something
Example: "The fullback's smash into the defensive line"
- noun: a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- noun: a vigorous blow
- verb: hit violently
Example: "She smashed her car against the guard rail"
- verb: break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow
Example: "The window smashed"
- verb: break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
Example: "Smash a plate"
- verb: overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful)
Example: "The police smashed the drug ring after they were tipped off"
- verb: hit hard
Example: "He smashed a 3-run homer"
- verb: collide or strike violently and suddenly
Example: "The motorcycle smashed into the guard rail"
- verb: hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke
- verb: humiliate or depress completely
Example: "The death of her son smashed her"
- verb: damage or destroy as if by violence
- verb: reduce to bankruptcy
Example: "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
- adverb: with a loud crash
Example: "The car went smash through the fence"