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Smash can be a noun or a verb.
smash used as a noun:
- The sound of a violent impact.
"I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding." - A traffic accident.
"The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash." - Something very successful.
"This new show of mine is sure to be a smash." - A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
"A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
smash used as a verb:
- To break (something brittle) violently.
"The demolition team smashed the buildings to rubble." - To hit extremely hard.
"He smashed his head against the table" - To ruin completely and suddenly.
"The news smashed any hopes of a reunion." - To defeat overwhelmingly.
"The Indians smashed the Yankees 22-0." - To deform through continuous pressure.
"I slowly smashed the modeling clay flat with the palm of my hand." - To be destroyed by being smashed.
"The crockery smashed as it hit the floor."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is smash?
- Noun usage: I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.
- Noun usage: The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash.
- Noun usage: This new show of mine is sure to be a smash.
- Noun usage: A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.
- Verb usage: The demolition team smashed the buildings to rubble.
- Verb usage: The flying rock smashed the window to pieces.
- Verb usage: He smashed his head against the table
- Verb usage: Bonds smashed the ball 467 feet, the second longest home run in the history of the park.
- Verb usage: The news smashed any hopes of a reunion.
- Verb usage: The Indians smashed the Yankees 22-0.
- Verb usage: I slowly smashed the modeling clay flat with the palm of my hand.
- Verb usage: The crockery smashed as it hit the floor.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of smash are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of smash, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
