Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - smash

(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