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smash up

smash up verb: to destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.

Verb

smash up (third-person singular simple present smashes up, present participle smashing up, simple past and past participle smashed up)

  1. (ambitransitive, idiomatic) To destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.
    • You remember, Harry, when the working men in America revolted against the Robots and smashed them up, and when the people gave the Robots firearms against the rebels. And then when the governments turned the Robots into soldiers, and there were so many wars.c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act...
    • The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.1944 May and June, “Notes and News: A Much Transformed Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 186
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To injure or maim.

Forms of smash up

third-person singular presentsmashes up
present participlesmashing up
past participlesmashed up
pastsmashed up

Words formed from smash up

Questions about smash up

What does smash up mean?
Smash up means to destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.
What part of speech is smash up?
Smash up is a verb.
What is the past tense of smash up?
The past tense of smash up is smashed up.

Words near smash up in the dictionary

  1. smash room
  2. smash rooms
  3. smash someone's face in
  4. smash someone's head
  5. smash the stack
  6. smash up
  7. smash-and-grab
  8. smash-and-grabs
  9. smash-mouth
  10. smashable
  11. smashboard

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