go to smash

verb

To go to ruin; to fail disastrously.

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Meanings

verbgo to smash (third-person singular simple present goes to smash, present participle going to smash, simple past went to smash, past participle gone to smash)

present singular third person goes to smash · participle present going to smash · past went to smash · participle past gone to smash

  1. datedslangTo 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
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    […] 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

    Synonyms: smash

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo go to ruin; to fail disastrously.

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smash
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smash
Cite this entry
APA

go to smash. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20to%20smash

MLA

“go to smash.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20to%20smash. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “go to smash,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20to%20smash.

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