smash down
verb
smashed down; smashing down; smashes down
: to hit (something) hard so that it breaks and falls down
Police smashed down the door.
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Nelson’s smash down the third-base line scored catcher Kyle Plasman, allowing SFC to improve to 5-3.
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
The emus helped themselves happily to both, smashing down fences and churning up crops in the process.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2026
The risk is in presuming that anything subversive or sensational is also true and meaningful, and that anything conventional is a lie that must be smashed down.
—Laura K. Field, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
Two years later, bald men with tattoos and gold chains smashed down their door, shattered windows and flipped furniture to bully them out of their home anyway.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
After greeting her former flame with a little Dexys Midnight Run, Hedda meets Eileen’s new lover, played by Imogen Poots, and proceeds to hit the self-destruct button – the chandelier smashing down onto the floor is the least of her problems.
—Ben Jureidini, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
The emus helped themselves happily to both, smashing down fences and churning up crops in the process.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2026
The risk is in presuming that anything subversive or sensational is also true and meaningful, and that anything conventional is a lie that must be smashed down.
—Laura K. Field, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
Two years later, bald men with tattoos and gold chains smashed down their door, shattered windows and flipped furniture to bully them out of their home anyway.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
After greeting her former flame with a little Dexys Midnight Run, Hedda meets Eileen’s new lover, played by Imogen Poots, and proceeds to hit the self-destruct button – the chandelier smashing down onto the floor is the least of her problems.
—Ben Jureidini, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
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“Smash down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smash%20down. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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