smash up


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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.smash up - damage or destroy as if by violencesmash up - damage or destroy as if by violence; "The teenager banged up the car of his mother"
bang up, smash
damage - inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
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smash

verb
1. To crack or split into two or more fragments by means of or as a result of force, a blow, or strain:
break, fracture, rift, rive, shatter, shiver, splinter, sunder.
2. To strike together with a loud, harsh noise:
clash, crash.
3. To undergo wrecking:
crash.
Informal: crack up, pile up.
4. To deliver a powerful blow to suddenly and sharply:
bash, catch, clout, hit, knock, pop, slam, slog, slug, smite, sock, strike, swat, thwack, whack, wham, whop.
Informal: biff, bop, clip, wallop.
Slang: belt, conk, paste.
Idioms: let someone have it, sock it to someone.
5. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows:
assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, thrash, thresh.
Informal: lambaste.
Slang: clobber.
Idiom: rain blows on.
6. To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of:
bankrupt, break down, cross up, demolish, destroy, finish, ruin, shatter, sink, spoil, torpedo, undo, wash up, wrack, wreck.
Slang: total.
Idiom: put the kibosh on.
7. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat:
annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish.
Informal: massacre, wallop.
Slang: clobber, cream, shellac, smear.
noun
1. A loud striking together:
clash, crash.
2. A forceful movement causing a loud noise:
bang, crash, slam, wham.
3. An abrupt disastrous failure:
breakdown, collapse, crash, debacle, smashup, wreck.
4. Violent forcible contact between two or more things:
bump, collision, concussion, crash, impact, jar, jolt, percussion, shock.
5. A wrecking of a vehicle:
crash, smashup, wreck.
Informal: crackup, pileup.
6. Informal. A dazzling, often sudden instance of success:
hit, sleeper.
Informal: smash hit, ten-strike, wow.
Slang: boff, boffo, boffola.
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Translations

w>smash up

vt sep → zertrümmern; face → übel zurichten; car → kaputt fahren
vi → kaputtgehen; the capsule completely smashed up on landing → die Kapsel zerschellte bei der Landung
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