Definition of smashednext
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smashed

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verb

past tense of smash
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as in demolished
to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive the firecracker smashed the clay pot

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as in destroyed
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of the invading troops smashed the resistance and went on to conquer the country

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Recent Examples of smashed
Adjective
In a little cove below the falls, five feet of smashed canvas and wood testified to the fate of the canoe that had dumped. Marc Terziev, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026 Detectives also found Murphy’s phone with a smashed screen. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
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We’d be either swamped or smashed like an eggshell by the tons of solid water pouring over us. James D. Oxley, Outdoor Life, 5 Aug. 2026 This isn’t the first time that human debris has smashed into the lunar surface. Frank Landymore, Futurism, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for smashed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smashed
Adjective
  • An image from a National Transportation Safety Board report into an incident in which a passenger was nearly sucked out of a broken window of Ryanair Flight 1879 on July 10, 2026, just after takeoff from Thessaloniki, Greece.
    Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Staff in the South Stand offices would spend the winter months wearing jackets due to a broken boiler and, according to Bruce, only the players quickest to the dressing-room showers could expect to enjoy hot water after games.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Habib, who joined the department in 2007, was responding to a 911 call at a Bronx catering hall in 2023 when a drunk and disorderly man resisted arrest, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • In 2014, the Glaswegian photographer Dougie Wallace released a collection of photographs of incredibly drunk stag-do and hen-do parties in Blackpool.
    George Francis Lee, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Twin earthquakes in June shattered Venezuela’s coastal state of La Guaira, transforming a Caribbean playground into a landscape of ruin and grief.
    Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The east Charlotte shooting left church and school bus windows shattered and children crying.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 14 Aug. 2026
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  • In Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a Russian glide bomb demolished six floors of a 10-story apartment block, killing one person and wounding 16 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The facade will join a growing list of other historic sites that have been steadily demolished around Charlotte over the decades.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • An airstrike destroyed a house in Ansar town, killing seven people and wounding three others on Saturday morning, NNA said.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Even if Claude had bumped the number all the way to 100 percent, the LLM wouldn’t be eligible for the $1 million.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The company recently completed the purchase of Curtis Instruments , announced two pending deals and bumped its annual dividend by 11%, marking 70 consecutive years of increases.
    Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • When Levelle Bailey suffered a fractured leg in Friday’s preseason opener in Atlanta, the Broncos suddenly lost the most experienced player among their reserve inside linebackers.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Whatever the terminology, truth and proof in today's fractured and somewhat conspiratorial society could be construed as strange bedfellows.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Madness, and all thanks to the powers of drunken room service.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Newell accused the Record of illegally obtaining and leaking information about a drunken-driving incident, according to court documents obtained by USA TODAY.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026

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“Smashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smashed. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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