Shatter: alternatives and connections

A violent gust of wind.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapp…

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

To dash; to throw violently.

To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of…

Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.

To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.

a dash that is one-half the length of an em dash.; "The en dash is commonly used to indicate a closed range of values — a range with c…

To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

Small pieces or splinters; fragments.

A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed…

The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or f…

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.