(v. t.) To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
(v. i.) To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.
(n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
(n.) Hence, bankruptcy.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
(2) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
(3) Shaker Aamer , a Saudi who lived in London before travelling to Afghanistan, has given a statement to one of his lawyers in which he says British intelligence officers were present while Americans beat him and smashed his head against a wall.
(4) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(5) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
(6) 8.51pm GMT Falcons 27 - Seahawks 21, 3:35 4th of quarter The smash mouth Falcons are back on first down, Turner has 12 more yards.
(7) Kuyt tries to smash a first-time sidefoot goalwards from the penalty spot, but doesn't connect properly, and Garay blocks anyway.
(8) I thought he'd smash it somewhere near the corner and hope it would go through, and he's left‑footed.
(9) Smashed windows and bomb damage visible at the front of the station.
(10) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
(11) In one of his lunch breaks with Sleep, he told him that he had been tortured by the army, smashed over the head with the butt of an AK47 and left for dead.
(12) Cops were smashing people with bicycles and nightsticks."
(13) The former concept has been smashed by the digital economy, which helped enable 1.2 million Britons to switch banks last year.
(14) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
(15) Manchester United coach ‘smashed up’ on way to Upton Park Read more The equation had been simple enough.
(16) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(17) The ceremony also produced the most retweeted photograph ever, with Ellen DeGeneres’ “selfie” attracting more than 2m retweets to smash Barack Obama’s record .
(18) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(19) Bauer Radio's Smash Hits saw the biggest dip in audience among the national digital commercial radio stations in the third quarter of 2009, dipping below the 1 million mark.
(20) (Has anyone come across a couple who have tried this successfully, without one smashing the bottle of wine across the other's forehead?
Wham
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Then wham, the sudden terrors again, about nothing in particular.
(2) I remember her sunbathing on the college roof, listening to Wham!, reading difficult philosophy and explaining it to us really simply.” But, she recalled, Kendall had a real passion for social justice and Neil Kinnock’s 1992 general election defeat devastated her.
(3) "It was like somebody went wham and slapped my whole body from front and back," he said.
(4) Photograph: BBC George Michael on the cover of Wham!’s Last Christmas ... George Michael singing Last Christmas Cabin Pressure Benedict Cumberbatch , likely to be an Oscar nominee in January, can do anything he wants on screen or stage at the moment, so it’s impressive and touching that he has been able to find time to join Roger Allam and Stephanie Cole for the final flight – in two parts, with a day’s stopover in between – of John Finnemore’s comedy about a single-plane charter airline.
(5) George Michael , 51, grew up in London and in the early 1980s formed the band Wham!
(6) Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome tae your gory bed, Or tae victorie.
(7) Part of the problem was that she and Watt stood for a political sensibility that had made sense in the early post-punk 80s, but was rapidly becoming anachronistic as the decade evolved away from the Jam towards Wham!
(8) And suddenly it was, wham, and I was right back in junior high."
(9) The mutant, called WHAM (Wisconsin hypo-alpha mutant), has a 70-90% reduction in plasma HDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I) concentrations.
(10) Hemsworth has since turned out to be a no-brainer for studios, a killer combo of pecs and presence, although his incredibly charismatic turn as James Hunt in Rush proves that there's a whole lot more to him than wham-bam blockbusters.
(11) Eric Stoltz shot it for six weeks and then they hired me, wham bam, I was in the parking lot where they filmed the scene with the DeLorean and it was really last minute and it was cold and if it hadn't been I wouldn't have worn that vest.
(12) Control chickens maintained on a high-cholesterol diet for 28 weeks experienced a 2.4-fold rise in the plasma very low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration, while the same diet induced a 3.7-fold rise in the low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration in WHAM chickens.
(13) The McDonald’s in the main square blares out Wham’s Last Christmas, the dress code is relaxed.
(14) When, in Jerusalem, slaughterman Davey Dean boasts of the 200 cows he kills in a morning – "Wham!
(15) At the end of the 3-year period, the area and thickness of the spontaneous aortic lesions in control and WHAM chickens were not significantly different.
(16) About 25% of them were queuing up for help and feeling better, when wham!
(17) It is where stars of the 1980s, such as members of Wham!, Duran Duran and Culture Club, recorded the original track.
(18) To assess the effect of HDL deficiency on spontaneous atherosclerosis, a separate group of control and WHAM chickens was maintained on a low-fat, cholesterol-free diet for 3 years.
(19) The whole wham bam thank you ma’am of the porn industry doesn’t cater for the women and men who want more than lips, tits and moaning,” 27-year-old Olivia Hare told me.
(20) "You've just got to compare Morrissey's lyrics with Wham!