"smash up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-smash up.ogg [Australia] Forms: smashes up [present, singular, third-person], smashing up [participle, present], smashed up [participle, past], smashed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} smash up (third-person singular simple present smashes up, present participle smashing up, simple past and past participle smashed up)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To destroy, or be destroyed by smashing. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive, transitive Derived forms: smashup [noun]
    Sense id: en-smash_up-en-verb-j0xg9e0S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (up), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 88 12 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 79 21 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 88 12
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To injure or maim. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Categories (topical): Violence
    Sense id: en-smash_up-en-verb-~2x~EhV3 Disambiguation of Violence: 27 73

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for smash up meaning in English (2.7kB)

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