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Smash

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Verb group 2

Dash 84% connected

To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Dash 84% connected

To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 22

Abase 76% connected

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blow 76% connected

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bump 76% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Chagrin 76% connected

Vexation; mortification.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Clash 76% connected

To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Collide 76% connected

To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Collision 76% connected

The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Damage 76% connected

Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Demolish 76% connected

To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Destroy 76% connected

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hit 76% connected

It.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hitting 76% connected

of Hit

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Humble 76% connected

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Humiliate 76% connected

To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Impoverish 76% connected

To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mortify 76% connected

To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Return 76% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Separate 76% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Striking 76% connected

of Strike

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Success 76% connected

Act of succeeding; succession.

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Manner of action 1

Blast 76% connected

A violent gust of wind.

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Narrower term 3

Impaction 76% connected

The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

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Impingement 76% connected

The act of impinging.

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Sleeper 76% connected

One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Blast 74% connected

A violent gust of wind.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Blast 74% connected

A violent gust of wind.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Knock 74% connected

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Knock 74% connected

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 17

Bang 92% connected

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bankrupt 92% connected

A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Bash 92% connected

To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Belt 92% connected

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Blast 92% connected

A violent gust of wind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Boom 92% connected

A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Break 92% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Crash 92% connected

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Crush 92% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Dash 92% connected

To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Hit 92% connected

It.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Knock 92% connected

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Nail 92% connected

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Overhead 92% connected

Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ruin 92% connected

The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Smasher 92% connected

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strike 92% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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