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SMASHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very drunk
Synonyms:
wet; tight; stiff; squiffy; sozzled; soused; soaked; smashed; sloshed; slopped; plastered; pixilated; pissed; pie-eyed; loaded; fuddled; crocked; cockeyed; blotto; blind drunk; besotted
Classified under:
Similar:
drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))
Domain usage:
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb smash
Context examples:
The crater formed less than 3 million years ago, according to the study, when an iron meteorite more than half a mile wide smashed into northwest Greenland.
(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)
The glass smashed into a thousand pieces and the fruit rolled about into every corner of the room.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His head had been smashed to pulp by heavy blows of a sandbag or some such instrument, which had crushed rather than wounded.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He suffered and toiled and sweated and bled, and exulted when his naked knuckles smashed home.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
One of the latter knocked off the man’s hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This asteroid — about the size of Ceres, one of the largest asteroids in the Solar System — smashed into Mars, ripped off a chunk of the northern hemisphere and left behind a legacy of metallic elements in the planet's interior.
(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside, the initial “B” burned on the top of it with a hot iron, and the corners somewhat smashed and broken as by long, rough usage.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It was not so high as the first, however, and by standing upon the Lion's back they all managed to scramble to the top. Then the Lion gathered his legs under him and jumped on the wall; but just as he jumped, he upset a china church with his tail and smashed it all to pieces.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
There was something horrible in the ferocious energy of Berks’s hitting, every blow fetching a grunt from him as he smashed it in, and after each I gazed at Jim, as I have gazed at a stranded vessel upon the Sussex beach when wave after wave has roared over it, fearing each time that I should find it miserably mangled.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The tray was kept from tumbling down, by a bible; and the tray, if it had tumbled down, would have smashed a quantity of cups and saucers and a teapot that were grouped around the book.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
