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smash-up

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smash-up Informal
n
(Engineering / Automotive Engineering) a bad collision, esp of cars
vb smash up
(tr, adverb) to damage to the point of complete destruction they smashed the place up
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.smash-up - a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
smash
automotive vehicle, motor vehicle - a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails
collision - an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object; "three passengers were killed in the collision"; "the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill"
Translations
smash-up [ˈsmæʃʌp] N → violenta colisión f, grave accidente m de tráfico
smash-up
n (Brit: Aut, Rail) → übler Unfall; (esp with another vehicle) → Karambolage f


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Our author tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable.
The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context
Came the long day, when, routed from bed at three in the morning to dig a surface car out of the wrecked show windows of a drug store and get it back on the track, they had laboured all day clearing up a half-dozen smash-ups and arrived at the car house at nine at night just as another call came in.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
This closing scene was brief but striking, for two trains of cars whizzed in from opposite sides, met with a terrible collision in the middle of the stage, and a general smash-up completed the word catastrophe.
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