Concept cluster: Activities > Destruction or breaking
adv
(idiomatic) completely, to the point of destruction.
v
(transitive, archaic) To strike or flog with a lash; take a lash to
n
(aviation) A kind of foam-dispensing nozzle used in firefighting at airports.
v
(slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
n
A person who blows.
n
(slang) An argument; an altercation.
n
(often in combination) An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
n
(Internet slang) kill file
n
(slang) Synonym of kill file
n
(obsolete, slang) An error.
n
(rare) One who is broken, or with whom a relationship is broken.
v
(US, informal, intransitive) To break up (end a relationship)
n
(chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
v
(transitive, colloquial, rare) To break into pieces.
n
(colloquial) The process of something being broken or exploded.
n
A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.
n
A family event at which an infant or pet is given a cake to demolish.
v
(Britain, New Zealand, slang) to destroy; to comprehensively defeat
n
(slang) The prank of grabbing a victim's forearm in both hands and twisting the skin in opposite directions.
v
(transitive, archaic) To bruise or pound.
n
A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
v
(vulgar) To stop prevaricating or lying.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
v
(transitive) To throw violently.
v
To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
n
(UK, archaic) A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
v
(chiefly US, idiomatic, by extension) To speak vehemently, especially in an outraged, insulting, or threatening manner.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To shatter, smash, or crush.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.
v
(Britain, of a person or object) to be lost, spoiled or destroyed.
v
(slang) Synonym of smash and dash
v
(MLE, slang) To kill or seriously injure with a knife.
v
(transitive) To defeat thoroughly; to thrash.
n
(figuratively, by extension) Any attack that is considered unfair or unscrupulous.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To act violently.
n
Alternative form of megasmash. [(informal) A very successful smash hit.]
v
(transitive, UK, slang) To defeat or destroy utterly (as in a sport or competition).
n
The act of somebody lashing out.
v
(transitive, slang, dated, UK) To clear off.
v
(transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
v
To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
v
(Internet) To give something a deluge of negative user reviews.
v
(idiomatic) To seem to be false or implausible; to be unconvincing.
n
(chiefly Maryland, Delaware) Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).
v
(usually figuratively) To break the ice in a sudden or dramatic fashion.
v
(informal, US, transitive) To inflict a heavy defeat upon.
n
(Britain, colloquial) A traffic collision.
n
The cake that is demolished during a cake smash.
v
(informal) to perform excellently; to enjoy great success
n
Synonym of rage room
v
(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.
n
Something that, or someone who, smashes.
n
(informal) An abrupt, damaging breakdown or failure.
n
The act of one who smites.
n
A beaten or pulverized mass.
v
To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something).
v
(transitive, Provincial, obsolete) To beat severely.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
v
(figuratively) To strike verbally or gesturally with ill intents.
v
(obsolete) To break or dash to pieces.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To scourge severely.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To beat or crush to pieces.
v
(slang) To vomit.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To smite heavily.
v
(by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To produce (a noise) (of an inanimate object).
v
(transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
v
(obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
n
Alternative spelling of wipeout [The act of colliding or crashing.]
n
(colloquial) One who is zapped.
n
The act or result of being zapped.
adj
(slang) Striking; great.

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