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smashing

smashing

10 3.9
Breaking something into small pieces by force
  • noun
  • /ˈsmæʃɪŋ/
: rompimiento
  • There was an immense smashing, crunching, and cracking, and dust came swirling up as jagged fragments of paving shot up all around.
  • smashing of windows

So all incidents of window smashing, of arson, please put those from your mind.

Examples

  • The children were fascinated by the smashing of the piñata during the birthday party.

  • Confrontations between concert-goers and police and the smashing of windows were numerous; from the stadium, inside and out, many were wounded and detained.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The smashing of windows was only a part of the story of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.

    Academic text (2011)

  • There's a screech of brakes, then the smashing of metalwork and glass.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • He heard the smashing of glass as the car crashed into the storefront.

  • The loud smashing noise startled everyone in the quiet library.

Synonyms

breaking
vssmashing
73 1.7

To cause something to fall into pieces or become damaged

is specifically about forceful action that makes many small pieces
rupture
vssmashing
40 6.0

A sudden violent breaking open of something like a pipe or balloon

involves breaking into small pieces specifically, not just bursting open
fragmentation
vssmashing
15 6.3

Breaking something into small pieces, often by force

is the active, forceful act that causes that process
cracking
vssmashing
14 3.5

The sharp noise something makes when it breaks

emphasizes creating many small pieces rather than a single crack
breakage
vssmashing
8 4.4

Damage that makes something in pieces or not usable

describes the active, forceful breaking that produces those results
bashing
vssmashing
  • NSFW
7 4.4

A violent act of hitting a person or damaging a thing

focuses on forceful destruction into small pieces rather than hitting itself
shattering
vssmashing
2 4.2

Breaking something into many small pieces with sudden force

is the same act but named more generally without stressing suddenness
splintering
vssmashing
2 4.6

An act of wood breaking that sends out small sharp pieces

is broader, not limited to chipping or producing sharp bits
comminution
vssmashing
  • Specialized
1 9.9

The act of breaking something into many small pieces by crushing or grinding

uses forceful breaking rather than crushing or grinding to make pieces
sharding
vssmashing
8.8

The breaking of something into many sharp pieces that can cut you

focuses on making small pieces rather than the sharp fragment shape

Antonyms

repair
371 2.3

Work done to fix something that is broken

How Forceful

to shatter
145 2.8
smashing
10 3.9
to break
∞ 1.0
to hit
∞ 1.0
to tap
98 1.0

Surface Forms

smashing singular
smashings plural

Morphology

smashing = smash (transparent) = smash + ing

The noun is a regular -ing nominalization referring to the act of smashing.

Etymology

Smashing comes from the verb smash, which copies the loud sound of something breaking, so smashing is the act of breaking something into pieces with force.