Synonyms for smash

noun

crash, breakup, breaking; see blow 1.

verb

crack, shatter, crush, burst, shiver, fracture, splinter, break, demolish, destroy, dash to pieces, batter, crash, wreck, disrupt, break up, overturn, overthrow, lay in ruins, raze, topple, tumble; see also break 2. See syn. study at break.

See smash in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


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, shiver2, splinter, sunder. See help
  2. To strike together with a loud, harsh noise:

    clash, crash. See sounds
  3. To undergo wrecking:

    crash. (Informal) crack up, pile up. See help
  4. To deliver a powerful blow to suddenly and sharply:

    bash, catch, clout, hit, knock, pop1, slam, slog, slug3, smite, sock, strike, swat, thwack, whack, wham, whop. (Informal) biff, bop, clip1, wallop. (Slang) belt, conk, paste. Idioms: let someone have it, sock it to someone. See attack, strike
  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. See attack, strike
  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, wrack2, wreck. (Slang) total. Idiom: put the kibosh on. See help
  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. See win
noun
  1. A loud striking together:

    clash, crash. See sounds
  2. A forceful movement causing a loud noise:

    bang, crash, slam, wham. See strike
  3. An abrupt disastrous failure:

    breakdown, collapse, crash, debacle, smashup, wreck. See money
  4. Violent forcible contact between two or more things:

    bump, collision, concussion, crash, impact, jar, jolt, percussion, shock1. See conflict
  5. A wrecking of a vehicle:

    crash, smashup, wreck. (Informal) crackup, pileup. See help
  6. (Informal)

    A dazzling, often sudden instance of success:

    hit, sleeper. (Informal) smash hit, ten-strike, wow. (Slang) boff, boffo, boffola. See thrive

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