<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.</li><li>to defeat, disappoint, or disillusion utterly.</li><li>to hit or strike (someone or something) with force.</li><li>to overthrow or destroy something considered as harmful: They smashed the drug racket.</li><li>to ruin financially: The depression smashed him.</li><li>Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis: to hit (a ball or shuttlecock) overhead or overhand with a hard downward motion, causing the shot to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.</li><li>(used without object) to break to pieces from a violent blow or collision.</li><li>to dash with a shattering or crushing force or with great violence; crash (usually followed by against, into, through, etc.).</li><li>to become financially ruined or bankrupt (often followed by up).</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.</li><li>the sound of such a smash.</li><li>a blow, hit, or slap.</li><li>a destructive collision, as between automobiles.</li><li>a smashed or shattered condition.</li><li>a process or state of collapse, ruin, or destruction: the total smash that another war would surely bring.</li><li>financial failure or ruin.</li><li>Informal: smash hit.</li><li>a drink made of brandy, or other liquor, with sugar, water, mint, and ice.</li><li>Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis: an overhead or overhand stroke in which the ball or shuttlecock is hit with a hard, downward motion causing it to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.</li><li>a ball hit with such a stroke.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of, relating to, or constituting a great success: That composer has written many smash tunes.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>