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DictionarysmashForceful impact
verb / noun

smash

SMASH/smæʃ/

A forceful collision or breaking blow.

The sledgehammer smashes the terracotta pot into large jagged pieces.

A man drives a sledgehammer into a terracotta pot on a solid work block, visibly shattering it into large jagged pieces at the instant of impact.
Etymology
smashEnglishto crush

Smash is probably imitative in origin, suggesting the sound of a violent impact. Its recorded uses include kicking downstairs and breaking to pieces.

In context

Old Time Radio Researchers0:57
And pretty thoroughly smashed. What is it? Something, whatever it was, must have hit her awfully hard to smash her spectacles like this.
Black Museum - The Pair Of Spectacles

More examples

  • She smashes the ice with a hammer.
  • The car smashed into the concrete barrier.
  • One smash of the hammer breaks the lock.

Forms

smash · smashes · smashed · smashing

Similar words

crash
Emphasizes a violent collision, often with a loud noise.
blow
Means a strike, without necessarily suggesting breakage or destruction.
collision
Describes things hitting each other, without necessarily implying great force.