smash
v.v. to break something into many small pieces by hitting it very hard. You can also use it to describe hitting something with a lot of force.
v. to break something into fragments with sudden violence or to strike something with heavy force. Often implies a loud noise and total destruction of the object's form.
He accidentally smashed the glass on the floor.
The tennis player managed to smash the ball across the court to win the final point.
The waves continued to smash against the jagged rocks, slowly eroding the coastline over centuries of relentless winter storms.
Uncertain, probably of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Swedish smask (“to smack with the lips”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”).
The verb is transitive when breaking an object, but can be intransitive when describing the act of crashing into something (e.g., 'the car smashed into a wall').