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smash

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Is smash a Scrabble word?

Yes, smash is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of smash?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A traffic collision.Examples: "The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash."Synonyms: crashIrelandUKcolloquialcountableuncountable

2. (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).Examples: "This new show is sure to be a smash."; "The dress is a smash."; "[…]Mumford & Sons – prospering British folk band, in the middle of a long tour of Australia, the US and the UK, their newly released album Babel a smash on all fronts – wander to centre stage."Synonyms: hit, smash hitcolloquialcountableuncountable

3. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.Examples: "A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points."; "A Nadal forehand into the net gave Djokovic the set and the Spaniard appeared rattled, firing a smash over the baseline in a rare moment of promise at 30-30 at the start of the third."countableuncountable

4. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.Examples: "Supposing a man has for the space of a month carried on trade in a showy shop in Cheapside, and then comes a smash, — is he not to be held a trader within the bankrupt law, because no one can swear that he has traded for four months?"archaiccolloquialcountableuncountable

5. (colloquial, archaic) A disaster; a bad situation.Examples: "“There’s nowhere else to go to now, for the people at the Cripples are all in custody, and the bar of the ken—I went up there and see it with my own eyes—is filled with traps.” “This is a smash,” observed Toby, biting his lips. “There’s more than one will go with this.”"archaiccolloquialcountableuncountable

6. (aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure.Examples: "Then, for Horner's red team, it became just a matter of gaining sufficient smash (airspeed) to convert on them and film them with gun cameras."countableinformaluncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.Examples: "The demolition team smashed the buildings to rubble."; "The flying rock smashed the window to pieces."; "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."Synonyms: dash, shattertransitive

2. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.Examples: "The crockery smashed as it hit the floor."Synonyms: shatterintransitive

3. (transitive) To hit extremely hard.Examples: "He smashed his head against the table."; "Bonds smashed the ball 467 feet, the second longest home run in the history of the park."Synonyms: poundtransitive

4. (transitive, figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.Examples: "The news smashed any hopes of a reunion."Synonyms: dashfigurativelytransitive

5. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.Examples: "The Indians smashed the Yankees 22-0."; "I really smashed that English exam."Synonyms: slaughter, trouncefigurativelytransitive

6. (transitive, US) To deform through continuous pressure.Examples: "I slowly smashed the modeling clay flat with the palm of my hand."; "Using a fork, smash the avocado with all the remaining ingredients."UStransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "smash"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "smash"?

Scrabble
10 points
S1
M3
A1
S1
H4
Words With Friends
10 points
S1
M4
A1
S1
H3

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