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went to smash

went to smash is the simple past 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 went to smash

What is went to smash the simple past of?
Went to smash is the simple past of go to smash.

Words near went to smash in the dictionary

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

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