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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

go to smash en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (dated, slang) To go to ruin; to fail disastrously.
    • […] her first marriage went to smash several years ago and now her second one is on the rocks […] 2009, Lynn Kear, James King, Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook, page 96:
    • […] do we see any improbability in the bankrupt's elder brother doing this much for him after his shoe business went to smash […] 1913, William Miller Collier, Mark L. Whitney, James Webster Eaton, American Bankruptcy Reports Annotated, page 654:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gone to smash Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
went to smash Tense=Past lexicographic
going to smash Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goes to smash Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

smash