smash

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter. synonym: break.
• intransitive verb To render (something) into a mush or pulp, as by throwing or crushing: synonym: crush.
• intransitive verb To strike with a heavy blow or impact.
• intransitive verb Sports To hit (a ball, puck, or shuttlecock) in a forceful overhand stroke.
• intransitive verb To cause to come into forceful contact with something.
• intransitive verb To crush or destroy completely.
• intransitive verb To surpass or outdo by a large margin.
• intransitive verb To move and strike or collide suddenly, noisily, and violently.
• intransitive verb To break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow or collision.
• intransitive verb Sports To hit a ball, puck, or shuttlecock in a forceful overhand stroke.
• intransitive verb To go bankrupt.
• noun A heavy blow or collision.
• noun Sports A forceful overhand stroke, as in tennis or badminton.
• noun A violent breaking of something or the noise made by such breaking.
• noun Total defeat or destruction; ruin.
• noun Financial failure; bankruptcy.
• noun A drink made of mint, sugar, soda water, and alcoholic liquor, usually brandy.
• noun A soft drink made of crushed fruit.
• noun Informal A resounding success.
• adjective Of, relating to, or being a resounding success.
• adverb With a sudden violent crash.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A violent dashing or crushing to pieces: as, the lurch of the ship was attended with a great smash of glass and china.
• noun Destruction; ruin in general; specifically, failure; bankruptcy: as, his business has gone to smash.
• noun A drink composed of spirit (generally brandy), cut ice, water, sugar, and sprigs of mint: it is like a julep, but served in smaller glasses.
• noun A disastrous collision, especially on a railroad; a smash-up.
• To break in pieces utterly and with violence; dash to pieces; shatter; crush.
• To render insolvent; bankrupt.
• To dash violently; fling violently and noisily: as, he smashed it against the wall.
• In lawn-tennis, to strike with much strength; bat very swiftly.
• Synonyms Shatter, etc. See dash.
• To act with a crushing force; produce a crushing or crashing.
• To be broken or dashed to pieces suddenly and roughly; go to pieces by a violent blow or collision.
• To be ruined; fail; become insolvent or bankrupt: generally with up.
• To dash violently: as, the locomotives smashed into each other.
• To utter base coin.
• noun In lawn-tennis, an overhand volley played hard and fast to prevent, by the speed of the stroke, a return by the opponent.
• To press or make (the folded and sewed sections of a proposed book) of a uniform thickness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
• transitive verb (Lawn Tennis) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke.
• intransitive verb To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.
• noun A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
• noun colloq. Hence, bankruptcy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
• noun UK, colloquial A traffic accident.
• noun colloquial, entertainment Something very successful.