Hide
Hide verb - To strike repeatedly.
Usage example: the grizzled quartermaster threatened to hide any soldier caught stealing provisions
Smash
Smash verb - To cause to break with violence and much noise.
How words are described
| similar | similar hide | similar smash |
| normal | normal hide | normal smash |
| right | right hide | right smash |
| original | original hide | original smash |
| Other adjectives: powerful, entire, big, yellow, double. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Oh, and they can smash through solid blocks, which means you can't use cubbyholes to hide from them.
Source: Demonic Spiders / Roguelikes - Subverted in Suffragette; one of the suffragists, who is actually a woman, disguises herself as harmless lady by using a baby carriage to hide the brickstones she's going to smash windows with.
Source: Harmless Lady Disguise -
The scissor man from Clock Tower will gladly smash the bathroom door open if you're foolish enough to hide behind it.
Source: Barrier-Busting Blow
Cite this Source
Smash and Hide. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/smash
Hide & Smash. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/smash>.
Smash or Hide. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/smash.
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