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smashing up

smashing up is the present participle and gerund of smash up.

Meaning of smash up

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...
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To injure or maim.

Questions about smashing up

What is smashing up the present participle and gerund of?
Smashing up is the present participle and gerund of smash up.

Words near smashing up in the dictionary

  1. smashing down
  2. smashing it
  3. smashing someone's face in
  4. smashing someone's head
  5. smashing the stack
  6. smashing up
  7. smashingest
  8. smashingly
  9. smashings
  10. smashmouth
  11. smashpad

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