Smash-up (Noun)
Meaning
A serious collision (especially of motor vehicles).
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
Examples
- The driver walked away unscathed from the smash-up, despite the mangled wreckage of her car.
- Several people were injured in the smash-up on the highway during rush hour yesterday morning.
- Police investigators spent hours piecing together the circumstances of the fatal smash-up.
- The car was completely destroyed in the smash-up and had to be towed away for scrap.
- Eyewitnesses described the sound of crunching metal and shattering glass during the massive smash-up on the freeway.