SMASHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smashed mean? 

• SMASHED (adjective)
  The adjective SMASHED has 1 sense:

1. very drunk

  Familiarity information: SMASHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMASHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very drunk

Synonyms:

plastered; wet; tight; stiff; squiffy; sozzled; soused; soaked; smashed; sloshed; slopped; besotted; pixilated; pissed; pie-eyed; loaded; fuddled; crocked; cockeyed; blotto; blind drunk

Similar:

drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

 Context examples 

So, with a "You beast!" he smashed Beauty Smith over backward with a second blow in the face.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We saw him approach her; and then, ma'am, she yelled and gave a spring, and the next minute she lay smashed on the pavement.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It had been smashed to atoms where it stood.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A dozen times he charged, and as often the club broke the charge and smashed him down.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Holding the paper in my left hand, I smashed down upon the cap with a rock held in my right.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The lock shivered, the wood smashed, the stone flew into five pieces, but the iron clamps still held the door in its position.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"And the bamboo grows through his smashed ribs," said Summerlee.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Canoe is smashed like eggshell, but is on top of ice and cannot sink.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Has Jo smashed all the bottles by accident?" he whispered, "or am I merely laboring under a delusion that I saw some lying about loose this morning?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The astronomers propose that around eight to 10 billion years ago, an unknown dwarf galaxy smashed into our own Milky Way.

(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)