Exploding and Shattering

verb

• Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
  • usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
  • synonyms: explode, detonate, blow up, set off
• Burst outward, usually with noise.
  • usage: "The champagne bottle exploded"
  • synonyms: explode, burst
• Show a violent emotional reaction.
  • usage: "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"
  • synonyms: explode
• Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.
  • usage: "His anger exploded"
  • synonyms: explode, burst forth, break loose
• Destroy by exploding.
  • usage: "The enemy exploded the bridge"
  • synonyms: explode
• Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/.
  • synonyms: explode
• Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval.
  • synonyms: explode
• Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete.
  • synonyms: explode
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: detonate, explode, blow up
• Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner.
  • usage: "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"
  • synonyms: explode, irrupt

noun

• The act of breaking something into small pieces.
  • synonyms: smashing

verb

• Break into many pieces.
  • usage: "The wine glass shattered"
  • synonyms: shatter
• Damage or destroy.
  • usage: "The news of her husband's death shattered her life"
  • synonyms: shatter
• Cause to break into many pieces.
  • usage: "shatter the plate"
  • synonyms: shatter

adjective

• Seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering.
  • usage: "shattering rain striking the windowpanes"; "the shattering tones of the enormous carillon"; "the shattering peal of artillery"