Crossword clues for smashing
smashing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smash \Smash\ (sm[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smashed (sm[a^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Smashing.] [Cf. Sw. smisk a blow, stroke, smiska to strike, dial. Sw. smaske to kiss with a noise, and E. smack a loud kiss, a slap.]
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To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces.
--Burke. (Lawn Tennis) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1833, "violently crushing to pieces," present participle adjective from smash (v.). Meaning "pleasing, sensational" is from 1911. Related: Smashingly.
Wiktionary
1 Serving to smash (something). 2 (''British informal'') wonderful, very good or impressive. n. ''Gerund:'' The action of the verb '''to smash'''. v
(present participle of smash English)
WordNet
n. the act of breaking something into small pieces [syn: shattering]
Usage examples of "smashing".
Saint stood unflinchingly, Amity clinging aghast to his arm, Warlock lifted the record and went through the dramatic gesture of smashing it against the corner of the phonograph.
Aubrey forgot his resolution not to hit a smaller man, and also calling upon his patron saints--the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World-- he delivered a smashing slog which hit the bookseller in the chest and jolted him half across the alley.
When Cowan tried a flying tackle, Yosha met it with a smashing knee that knocked him rolling to the floor.
He might not have his hose and doublet on, but Anne Darner still seemed to find him smashing.
He swung at Eggy, smashing him in the side of the head with a piledriver punch that should have felled a mule.
Bullets had stitched the walls, smashing the framed Hokusai and Yoshitosi woodblocks hanging over the futon where Jennifer lay quiet and still as death, awash in a sea of blood.
The second gauss slug impacted over a wheel, smashing it back into the drivetrain and fouling the right-side independent drive mechanism.
The goatherd tries to choke Don Quixote, but Sancho comes to the rescue by throwing the goatherd onto the tablecloth and upsetting or smashing everything upon it.
On they rampaged along the corridors, smashing, gouging and rending as they went.
Bellowing, he whirled his hammer and crashed it down on Jotun helmets, smashing them and the skulls inside.
Each of the explosions was one hundred kilotons, almost ten times stronger than the weapon that hit Hiroshima, and wasted a circle three thousand meters in diameter, smashing every tree and scrap of brush to the ground or incinerating them and tossing them into the column of fiery gas that reached to the heavens.
I went into the passage, and found Lupin in a fury, kicking and smashing a new tall hat.
Belle leapt clear and tracked-on spitting, reflexively sending her first greeting smashing into the gunhand of the opponent and splattering it, then climbing for the heart and the head--and the Mafioso went down gurgling with three Parabellum hi-shock expanders displacing several cubic inches of vital matter.
Images flared, one by one: spindly podia smashing nests, cutting strands.
He drew something from his sleeve, a glittering object that he pointed at Sneezer as he shouted deafening words that sounded like thunderclaps, the vibration of them smashing through the air and shaking the ground where Arthur lay.