| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A loud striking together: clash, crash. See SOUNDS. 2. An abrupt disastrous failure: breakdown, collapse, crash, debacle, smashup, wreck. See MONEY. 3. Violent forcible contact between two or more things: bump, collision, concussion, crash, impact, jar, jolt, percussion, shock1. See CONFLICT. 4. A wrecking of a vehicle: crash, smashup, wreck. Informal : crackup, pileup. See HELP. 5. Informal. A dazzling, often sudden instance of success: hit, sleeper. Informal : smash hit, ten-strike, wow. Slang : boff, boffo, boffola. See THRIVE. 6. A forceful movement causing a loud noise: bang, crash, slam, wham. See STRIKE. | | VERB: | 1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows: assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, drub, hammer, pound, pummel, thrash, thresh. Informal : lambaste. Slang : clobber. Idioms: rain blows on. See ATTACK, STRIKE. 2. To crack or split into two or more fragments by means of or as a result of force, a blow, or strain: break, fracture, rift, rive, shatter, shiver2, splinter, sunder. See HELP. 3. To strike together with a loud, harsh noise: clash, crash. See SOUNDS. 4. To undergo wrecking: crash. Informal : crack up, pile up. See HELP. 5. To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of: bankrupt, break down, cross up, demolish, destroy, finish, ruin, shatter, sink, spoil, torpedo, undo, wash up, wrack2, wreck. Slang : total. Idioms: put the kibosh on. See HELP. 6. To deliver a powerful blow to suddenly and sharply: bash, catch, clout, hit, knock, pop1, slam, slog, slug3, smite, sock, strike, swat, thwack, whack, wham, whop. Informal : biff, bop, clip1, wallop. Slang : belt, conk, paste. Idioms: let someone have it, sock it to someone. See ATTACK, STRIKE. 7. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. Informal : massacre, wallop. Slang : clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See WIN.
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