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gone to smash

gone to smash is the past participle of go to smash.

Meaning of go to smash

Verb

go to smash (third-person singular simple present goes to smash, present participle going to smash, simple past went to smash, past participle gone to smash)

  1. (dated, slang) To go to ruin; to fail disastrously.
    • […] do we see any improbability in the bankrupt's elder brother doing this much for him after his shoe business went to smash […]1913, William Miller Collier, Mark L. Whitney, James Webster Eaton, American Bankruptcy Reports Annotated, page 654
    Synonyms:
    smash

Questions about gone to smash

What is gone to smash the past participle of?
Gone to smash is the past participle of go to smash.

Words near gone to smash in the dictionary

  1. gone to sea
  2. gone to seed
  3. gone to shit
  4. gone to show
  5. gone to sleep
  6. gone to smash
  7. gone to someone's head
  8. gone to the bad
  9. gone to the bathroom
  10. gone to the bow-wows
  11. gone to the country

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