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- [smasht]
- /smæʃt/
- /smæʃt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [smasht]
- /smæʃt/
Definitions of smashed word
- adjective smashed of, relating to, or constituting a great success: That composer has written many smash tunes. 1
- verb with object smashed to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall. 1
- verb with object smashed to defeat, disappoint, or disillusion utterly. 1
- verb with object smashed to hit or strike (someone or something) with force. 1
- verb with object smashed to overthrow or destroy something considered as harmful: They smashed the drug racket. 1
- verb with object smashed to ruin financially: The depression smashed him. 1
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Origin of smashed
First appearance:
before 1955 One of the 4% newest English words
First recorded in 1955-60; smash + -ed2
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Smashed
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
smashed popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 75% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
smashed usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for smashed
adj smashed
- besotted — If you are besotted with someone or something, you like them so much that you seem foolish or silly.
- blind drunk — So intoxicated as to appear to have difficulty seeing.
- blown away — past participle of blow away.
- bombed — under the influence of alcohol or drugs (esp in the phrase bombed out of one's mind or skull)
- boozed — If someone is boozed or boozed up, they are drunk.
verb smashed
- atomized — Simple past tense and past participle of atomize.
- bammed — Simple past tense and past participle of bam.
- clattered — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clobbered — to paint over existing decoration on (a ceramic piece).
- clubbed — having a thickened end, like a club
noun smashed
- chopped — diced, minced, or cut into small bits.
- clapped — to strike the palms of (one's hands) against one another resoundingly, and usually repeatedly, especially to express approval: She clapped her hands in appreciation.
- clashed — Simple past tense and past participle of clash.
- lolloped — Simple past tense and past participle of lollop.
- whammed — Simple past tense and past participle of wham.
adjective smashed
- crumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of crumble.
- damaged — injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
- decocted — Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.
- demolished — to lay waste to; ruin utterly: The fire demolished the area.
- drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
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