Meaning of smash up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.
   ambitransitive, idiomatic
2. To injure or maim.
   idiomatic, transitive

Examples

“You remember, Harry, when the working men in America revolted against the Robots and smashed them up, and when the people gave the Robots firearms against the rebels. And then when the governments turned the Robots into soldiers, and there were so many wars.”

“The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.”

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