to smash someone's face in
1
9.8
- phrasal verb
- Offensive
:
partirle la cara a alguien
- Let's smash his face in.
Examples
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I'd like to smash that liar's face in!
Blog text (24) -
I think you will do fine provided you don't smash anyone's face in with a baseball bat.
Blog text (6) -
One of these days, I'm gonna smash his face in.
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If he starts whistling, I'll smash his face in.
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Last night, this guy snapped at me, and I had this overwhelming urge to run across the street and smash his face in.
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The fact you want to occasionally smash someone's face in with a baseball bat and that your thread is double posted are both signs that you're going crazy and should probably be locked up.
Blog text (6) -
He was so angry that he wanted to smash someone's face in during the fight.
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After listening to the insults, she felt like she could smash someone's face in out of frustration.
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Feeling provoked by the bully, he decided to smash his face in to put an end to the harassment.
Synonyms
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1.0
To strike someone or something with force
553
2.4
To hit someone or something with force
455
1.4
To hit someone or something quickly with a closed fist
271
4.1
To attack someone by hitting them again and again to hurt them
164
3.5
To hit someone or something with an open hand
126
4.7
To attack someone physically or try to hurt them
73
2.9
To hit someone or something very hard
53
9.9
To hurt or defeat someone very badly, often by hitting them
19
7.7
To hit someone or something very hard many times
16
8.0
To attack violently, upset someone deeply or criticize them strongly
15
7.6
Hit someone many times until they are badly hurt or win against them very clearly
13
7.5
Hit something hard so it breaks or opens
10
4.6
To hit someone or something very hard, often with the fist
7
6.5
Hit someone hard, often as punishment or in a fight
4
6.1
To hit someone or something hard with your head
3
3.7
Hit someone or something very hard
2
7.3
To hit something or someone very hard
1
9.4
To work very hard or to threaten to hit someone
1
7.5
Hit someone or something hard and violently
1
8.6
To hit someone or something very hard and damage it
1
9.5
To hit someone repeatedly and very hard
To hit someone's face very hard to hurt them
Hit someone's face hard so it looks damaged
Hit a person's head very hard and cause serious injury
Hit someone very hard so they are knocked out
Hit someone many times so they become badly hurt
To hit someone or something violently, often by running into them
To attack someone with your body or with strong words
Antonyms
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the parts: 'smash' (break by great force) applied to 'someone's face' plus the particle 'in' which conveys crushing inward/completion, so the phrase clearly denotes violently hitting and badly damaging a person's face. This verb + object + particle composition is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would very likely understand the intended violent meaning.
Etymology
Smash someone's face in comes from a violent picture: imagine hitting someone's face so hard that it is smashed in, like it is pushed or broken. So it means 'to attack someone very violently' and hurt them badly.