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say it: SMASH-ing
smashing is a noun and adjective meaning "the act of breaking something into small pieces". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the act of breaking something into small pieces
very good
“he did a bully job”
“a neat sports car”
“had a great time at the party”
“you look simply smashing”
“we had a grand old time”
colloquialism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for smashing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.