esmaixar

From English smash +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əz.məˈʃa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ez.majˈʃaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: es‧mai‧xar

esmaixar (first-person singular present esmaixo, first-person singular preterite esmaixí, past participle esmaixat)

1. (transitive, basketball) to dunk, to slam (to put the ball into the basket with force and support it with one's hand)
2. (racket sports) to smash (to hit the shuttlecock or ball high from top to bottom with force and sending them far out of the opponent's reach)

• “esmaixar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “esmaixar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “esmaixar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007