smash

Object

• windscreen: Train windshields smashed by thrown stones cost over £ 1,000 each to repair.
• window: Some people smashed windows, others made a sit down protest.
• six: Not only that, but his batting was a joy to watch, as he smashed sixes all over the ground.
• pane: He smashed a small pane of glass and opened the door.
• crockery: The woman responds by smashing crockery over his head and shooting him twice in the belly.
• ball: He could never bring himself to decide whether he had got a good bargain in smashing the ball, or not.

Converse of object

• hit: No, Waterloo was a smash hit for Napoleon.

Adjective modifier

• worldwide: Rose had a worldwide smash hit in 1962 with another of his own tunes, a humorous and satirical piece called The Stripper.
• West: The comics performing in the West End smash One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest are staging a free performance next week.

Modifies a noun

• hit: Based on the currently running smash hit cartoon series.

Modifying Another Word

• repeatedly: She later told officers Neal had repeatedly smashed her head against the bedroom wall during a blazing row.
• accidentally: In London to film an ad campaign, The Hoff severed a tendon on shards from a bathroom shelf he accidentally smashed.
• deliberately: Could he not have claimed that the opposing player leaped at his fist and deliberately smashed his face into Johnson's knuckles.

Noun used with modifier

• box-office: This being the UK premiere of the current US box-office smash, it's hardly surprising.
• forearm: The frustration was clear to all when Thompson was on the wrong end of a forearm smash that laid him out in midfield.
• dancefloor: It's variably a good lead sound that makes the difference between a dancefloor smash and just another track.
• box: However, her stronger role that year was in the Korean box office smash, The Warrior.

Followed by a transitive particle

• up: People seemed to be getting more violent, smashing up banks & gasoline stations.

Preposition: with

• hammer: He was spreadeagled on a large wheel, and his remaining sound limbs were smashed with a sledge hammer.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• through: TOWER Hamlets Badminton Club players smashed through to the final of their fourth annual national tournament earlier this month.