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smash
English
Etymology
From a blend of smack +? mash. Compare Swedish smask (“a light explosion, crack, report”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /smæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
smash (plural smashes)
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- (Britain, colloquial) A traffic collision.
- (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc); a hit.
- 2019, Ginaluca Russo, "Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet", Teen Vogue, 1 May 2019:
- All together, this look is a smash in our books.
- 2019, Ginaluca Russo, "Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet", Teen Vogue, 1 May 2019:
- (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
Synonyms
- (sound of a violent impact): crash
- (colloquial: traffic accident): crash
- (colloquial: something very successful): smash hit
Descendants
- ? Czech: sme?
- ? Serbo-Croatian: sme?
Translations
Verb
smash (third-person singular simple present smashes, present participle smashing, simple past and past participle smashed)
- To break (something brittle) violently.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter X
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter X
- (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
- To hit extremely hard.
- (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- I really smashed that English exam.
- (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
- 2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live:
- Farmersonly.com. A website that begs the question, what kind of bitch only smashes with farmers?
- 2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live:
Synonyms
- (break violently): dash, shatter
- (be destroyed by being smashed): shatter
- (hit extremely hard): pound, thump, wallop; see also Thesaurus:hit
- (ruin completely and suddenly): dash
- (defeat overwhelmingly): slaughter, trounce
- (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Descendants
- ? Catalan: esmaixar
Translations
Related terms
Anagrams
- HMSAS, SAHMs, Sahms, Shams, shams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English smash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sma?/
Noun
smash m (plural smashs)
- (tennis) smash
Related terms
- smasher
Further reading
- “smash” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English smash.
Noun
smash m (invariable)
- smash (tennis shot)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English smash.
Noun
smash m (plural smashes)
- (tennis) smash (overhead shot hit sharply downward)
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raze
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: r?z, IPA(key): /?e?z/
- Homophones: raise, rase, rays, rehs, réis, res
- Rhymes: -e?z
Etymology 1
From Middle English rasen, from Old French raser, from Vulgar Latin *ras?, from Latin r?sus (“scraped, shaved”), perfect passive participle of r?d? (“scrape, shave”).
Verb
raze (third-person singular simple present razes, present participle razing, simple past and past participle razed)
- (transitive) To demolish; to level to the ground.
- (transitive) To destroy; to strike out of existence; to obliterate.
- (transitive) To scrape as if with a razor.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
raze
- Obsolete spelling of race (rhizome of ginger).
Etymology 3
Noun
raze (plural razes)
- A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.
Further reading
- raze (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Azer., Ezra, Reza
Dutch
Verb
raze
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of razen
Anagrams
- Ezra
Friulian
Etymology 1
Uncertain; possibly of South Slavic or substrate origin. Compare Slovene raca, Romanian ra??.
Noun
raze f (plural razis)
- duck
Etymology 2
Compare Italian razza.
Noun
raze f (plural razis)
- race
- breed
- strain
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