(会員) Mon. 11pm - 09月03日-Mixed! - Useful & Fun English!

Let's review some of last night's fun words:

1. to smash = to hit & make shatter

a) I smashed the window.

b) I'm smashed. = I'm drunk.

c) That song was a smash!=That song was a smash-hit.

d) He was a smashing success.

2. to crush

a) I crushed a can,

b) The Yankees crushed the Red Sox.

c) I have a crush on her. (DOES NOT EQUAL I crushed her.)

3. to smash + to crush = to smush

You're crushing me. = Your pressure is damaging me.

Your smushing me. = You’re pushing into me.

4. to crash

a) I crashed my car.

I totaled  my car. = completely destroyed and cannot be fixed

b) I crashed my car into the tree.

c) The market crashed.

d) Can I crash on your couch?

e) Do you mind if I crash at your place?

f) I’m tired. I’m going to crash.

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5. to smudge

a) Be careful with this ink. It's fresh. You might smudge it.

b) There's a smudge on your hands.

c) The writing was so smudged that I couldn’t read it.

d) There was a smudge of lipstick on his collar.

6. to fudge

a) He fudged the numbers.

=He fudged the figures.

7. to blast

a) Did you hear that blast? What was that?

b) I blasted my biceps.

I blasted my thighs.

c) Q. How was the party?

A. It was a blast!

8. to mash = to crush, to grind

a) I mashed the potatoes.

b) I made mashed potatoes.

9. squash

I squashed the cockroach.

10. squelch

I squelched the desire to punch him.

The government tried to squelch the protests.

11. quench

The cold beer quenched my thirst.

My thirst was quenched.