| query | If you s____ something, you do it extremely well or successfully.If you smash something, you do it extremely well or successfully. We're really going to smash this task. I didn't know she could sing like that. She smashed it. |
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| word | smash |
| full-definition | verb 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. A crowd of youths started smashing windows. Two or three glasses fell off and smashed into pieces. 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 the embassy gates. Soldiers smashed their way into his office. 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. To smash a political group or system means to deliberately destroy it. Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed. If you smash something, you do it extremely well or successfully. We're really going to smash this task. I didn't know she could sing like that. She smashed it. noun A smash is the same as a smash hit . It is the public who decide if a film is a smash or a flop. You can refer to a car crash as a smash . He was near to death after a car smash. |
| inflections | smashessmashingsmashedpile-up |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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