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(Entry 1 of 3)
as in impressive, striking
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smashing
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of smashing (Entry 2 of 3)
as in attack, thrashing
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- assault,
- attack,
- bashing,
- battering,
- battery,
- batting,
- beating,
- belting,
- bludgeoning,
- buffeting,
- clubbing,
- cudgeling
- (or cudgelling),
- drubbing,
- flogging,
- hammering,
- lacing,
- licking,
- mauling,
- paddling,
- pelting,
- pommeling
- (or pommelling),
- pounding,
- pummeling
- (also pummelling),
- socking,
- thrashing,
- thumping,
- tromping,
- walloping,
- whaling,
- whipping
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smashing
verb
present participle of smash
Synonyms & Antonyms of smashing (Entry 3 of 3)
1
to cause to break with violence and much noise
- the drunken guest deliberately smashed a glass against the brick fireplace
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2
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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3
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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- beating,
- besting,
- clobbering,
- conquering,
- crushing,
- defeating,
- drubbing,
- licking,
- mastering,
- overbearing,
- overcoming,
- overmatching,
- prevailing (over),
- routing,
- scotching,
- skunking,
- subduing,
- surmounting,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- triumphing (over),
- trouncing,
- walloping,
- whipping,
- winning (against)
- blasting,
- blowing up,
- breaking,
- crippling,
- damaging,
- defacing,
- deteriorating,
- disfiguring,
- disintegrating,
- dissolving,
- dynamiting,
- harming,
- impairing,
- injuring,
- mangling,
- marring,
- mutilating,
- spoiling,
- vitiating
- blotting out,
- effacing,
- eradicating,
- expunging,
- exterminating,
- extirpating,
- liquidating,
- obliterating,
- removing,
- rooting (out),
- snuffing (out),
- stamping (out),
- wiping out
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4
to come into usually forceful contact with something
- we nearly smashed into each other on the skating rink
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The first known use of smashing was in 1825
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