smash up

1. (ambitransitive, idiomatic)To destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.

   damage or destroy as if by violence

2. (idiomatic, transitive)To injure or maim.

1. You smashed up the old furniture.

   deDu zerschlugst die alten Möbel. — Tamy

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2. And in a moment we smashed up what it had taken us years to build.

   deUnd ein Augenblick zertrümmerte, was wir in Jahren bauten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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3. There was a smash-up out on Route 66 today.

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4. All of Yanni's art works was smashed up by radical Islamists.

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irregular

• smash upрозбитися, розбиватисяTo destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.
• smash inTo smash up
• smash downTo cause to fall down and break by hitting it hard.