To crack or split into two or more fragments by means of or as a result of force, a blow, or strain

• sunder

  1. To break into two or more pieces or parts; sever:
  2. To force or keep apart:
  3. To form a barrier or border between:

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• splinter

  1. A sharp, slender piece, as of wood, bone, glass, or metal, split or broken off from a main body.
  2. A splinter group.
  3. To split or break into sharp, slender pieces; form splinters.

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• shiver

  1. To shake or tremble, as from cold or fear.
  2. To quiver or vibrate, as by the force of the wind.
  3. To cause (a sail) to flutter by sailing too close to the wind.

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• shatter

  1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow.
  2. To damage seriously; disable:
  3. To cause the destruction or ruin of; destroy:

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• rive

  1. To rend or tear apart.
  2. To break into pieces, as by a blow; cleave or split asunder.
  3. To break or distress (the spirit, for example).

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• rift

  1. A fissure, crack, or opening, as in rock.
  2. A break in friendly relations:
  3. An area where the lithosphere is thinning, typically associated with large faults and grabens.

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• fracture

  1. The act or process of breaking.
  2. The condition of having been broken or ruptured:
  3. A break, rupture, or crack, especially in bone or cartilage.

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• break

  1. To cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently; smash.
  2. To divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting:
  3. To separate into components or parts:

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To strike together with a loud, harsh noise

• crash

  1. To break violently or noisily; smash:
  2. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact:
  3. To make a sudden loud noise:

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• clash

  1. To collide with a loud, harsh, usually metallic noise:
  2. To meet in violent conflict:
  3. To be in opposition or disagreement:

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To undergo wrecking

• pile up

  1. To form a pile, stack, or heap.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.
  3. ​(idiomatic, colloquial) A traffic accident or collision involving multiple vehicles.

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• crack up

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To laugh heartily.
  2. (idiomatic) To cause to laugh heartily
  3. (intransitive, idiomatic) To become insane; to suffer a mental breakdown.

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• crash

  1. To break violently or noisily; smash:
  2. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact:
  3. To make a sudden loud noise:

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To deliver a powerful blow to suddenly and sharply

• paste

  1. A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth.
  2. The moist clay or clay mixture used in making porcelain or pottery.
  3. A smooth dough of water, flour, and butter or other shortening, used in making pastry.

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• conk

  1. The head.
  2. A blow, especially on the head.
  3. The human nose.

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• belt

  1. A flexible band, as of leather or cloth, worn around the waist or over a shoulder to support clothing, secure tools or weapons, or serve as decoration.
  2. Something resembling a belt, as a number of machine-gun rounds attached together in a strip.
  3. An encircling route.

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• wallop

  1. To beat forcefully; thrash.
  2. To strike with a hard blow:
  3. To defeat thoroughly.

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• clip

  1. To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears:
  2. To make shorter by cutting; trim:
  3. To cut off the edge of:

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• bop

  1. To hit or strike.
  2. A blow; a punch.

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• biff

  1. To strike or punch.
  2. A blow or punch.

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• whop

  1. To strike with a heavy blow.
  2. To defeat soundly; thrash.
  3. A heavy blow; a sharp thud.

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• wham

  1. A forceful, resounding blow.
  2. The sound of such a blow.
  3. To strike or crash into with resounding impact.

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• whack

  1. To strike (someone or something) with a sharp blow; slap.
  2. To kill deliberately; murder.
  3. To deal a sharp, resounding blow.

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• thwack

  1. To strike or hit with a flat object; whack.
  2. A hard blow with a flat object; a whack.

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• swat

  1. To strike or hit with a sharp blow:
  2. To strike or try to strike something with a sharp blow:
  3. A sharp blow or hit.

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• strike

  1. To hit sharply, as with a hand, fist, weapon, or implement:
  2. To inflict (a blow).
  3. To penetrate or pierce:

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• sock

  1. A short stocking reaching a point between the ankle and the knee.
  2. A windsock.
  3. A light shoe worn by comic actors in ancient Greek and Roman plays.

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• smite

  1. To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.
  2. To drive or strike (a weapon, for example) forcefully onto or into something else.
  3. To attack, damage, or destroy by or as if by blows.

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• slug

  1. A round bullet larger than buckshot.
  2. A shot of liquor.
  3. An amount of liquid, especially liquor, that is swallowed in one gulp; a swig.

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• slog

  1. To walk or progress with a slow heavy pace; plod:
  2. To work diligently for long hours:
  3. To make (one's way) with a slow heavy pace against resistance.

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• slam

  1. To shut with force and loud noise:
  2. To put, throw, or otherwise forcefully move so as to produce a loud noise:
  3. To hit or strike with great force.

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• pop

  1. To make a short, sharp, explosive sound.
  2. To burst open with a short, sharp, explosive sound.
  3. To move quickly or unexpectedly; appear abruptly:

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• knock

  1. To strike with a hard blow:
  2. To affect in a specified way by striking hard:
  3. To cause to be displaced or unengaged; force:

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• hit

  1. To come into contact with forcefully; strike:
  2. To cause to come into contact:
  3. To deal a blow to:

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• clout

  1. A piece of cloth, especially a baby's diaper.

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• catch

  1. To get and hold (something that has been in motion) in a hand, the hands, a container, or an implement:
  2. To take hold of, especially forcibly or suddenly; grasp:
  3. To stop (oneself) from doing an action:

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• bash

  1. To strike with a heavy, crushing blow:
  2. To beat or assault severely:
  3. To criticize (another) harshly, accusatorially, and threateningly:

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To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows

• clobber

  1. To strike violently and repeatedly; batter or maul.
  2. To defeat decisively.
  3. To criticize harshly.

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• lambaste

  1. To give a thrashing to; beat.
  2. To scold sharply; berate:

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• thresh

  1. To beat the stems and husks of (grain or cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains or seeds from the straw.
  2. To separate (grains or seeds) in this manner.
  3. To discuss or examine (an issue, for example) repeatedly.

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• thrash

  1. To strike or beat, especially repeatedly with a flail or stick.
  2. To strike violently; batter:
  3. To swing or strike in a manner suggesting the action of a flail:

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• pummel

  1. To beat or batter, as with the fists:
  2. To cause to undergo harm or loss:
  3. To attack or harry verbally:

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• pound

  1. A unit of weight equal to 16 ounces (453.592 grams).
  2. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces (373.242 grams).
  3. A unit of weight differing in various countries and times.

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• hammer

  1. A hand tool consisting of a handle with a head of metal or other heavy rigid material that is attached at a right angle, used for striking or pounding.
  2. The part of a gunlock that hits the primer or firing pin or explodes the percussion cap and causes the gun to fire.
  3. One of the padded wooden pieces of a piano that strikes the strings.

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• drub

  1. To thrash with a stick.
  2. To instill forcefully:
  3. To defeat soundly.

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• buffet

  1. A large sideboard with drawers and cupboards.
  2. A counter or table from which meals or refreshments are served.
  3. A restaurant having such a counter.

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• belabor

  1. To talk or write about at length or excessively; harp on:
  2. To assail verbally:
  3. To attack with blows; hit, beat, or whip.

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• beat

  1. To strike repeatedly.
  2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter.
  3. To punish by hitting or whipping; flog.

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• batter

  1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows.
  2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse.
  3. To damage, as by heavy wear:

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• baste

  1. To sew loosely with large running stitches so as to hold together temporarily.

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• assault

  1. A violent physical attack, as with blows.
  2. A strong or cutting verbal attack.
  3. A military attack, such as one launched against a fortified area or place.

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• assail

  1. To attack violently, as with blows or military force; assault.
  2. To attack verbally, as with ridicule or censure.
  3. To trouble or beset, as with questions or doubts.

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To cause the complete ruin or wreckage of

• total

  1. An amount obtained by addition; a sum.
  2. The whole amount of something; the entirety:
  3. Of, relating to, or constituting the whole amount; entire:

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• wreck

  1. The act of destroying or the state of being destroyed; destruction:
  2. Accidental destruction of a ship; a shipwreck.
  3. The stranded hulk of a severely damaged ship.

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• wrack

  1. Destruction or ruin. Used chiefly in the phrase wrack and ruin.

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• wash up

  1. (UK, intransitive) To clean the utensils, dishes etc. used in preparing and eating a meal.
  2. (US, intransitive) To wash one's hands and/or face, often around mealtimes.
  3. (intransitive, of water) To carry an object to land.

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• undo

  1. To reverse or erase; annul:
  2. To untie, disassemble, or loosen:
  3. To open (a parcel, for example); unwrap.

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• torpedo

  1. A cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater projectile launched from a submarine, aircraft, or ship and designed to detonate on contact with or in the vicinity of a target.
  2. Any of various submarine explosive devices, especially a submarine mine.
  3. A small explosive placed on a railroad track that is fired by the weight of the train to sound a warning of an approaching hazard.

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• spoil

  1. To impair or destroy the value or quality of; ruin:
  2. To harm the character of (a child) by overindulgence or leniency.
  3. To plunder; despoil.

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• sink

  1. To go below the surface of water or another liquid:
  2. To descend to the bottom of a body of water or other liquid:
  3. To fall or drop to a lower level, especially to go down slowly or in stages:

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• shatter

  1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow.
  2. To damage seriously; disable:
  3. To cause the destruction or ruin of; destroy:

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• ruin

  1. The state of being physically destroyed, collapsed, or decayed:
  2. The state of being extensively harmed or damaged:
  3. Poverty of bankruptcy:

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• finish

  1. To stop (doing an activity or task) after reaching the point at which there is nothing left to do:
  2. To bring to a required or desired state:
  3. To arrive at or attain the end of:

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• destroy

  1. To break apart the structure of, render physically unusable, or cause to cease to exist as a distinguishable physical entity:
  2. To put an end to; eliminate:
  3. To render useless or ruin:

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• demolish

  1. To tear down or break apart the structure of; raze.
  2. To do away with completely; put an end to:
  3. To damage (someone's reputation, for example) severely.

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• cross up

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• break down

  1. Alternative form of breakdown.
  2. (intransitive) to fail, to cease to function
  3. (ergative, figuratively) to render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally

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• bankrupt

  1. A person, business, or organization legally declared insolvent because of inability to pay debts.
  2. A person who is totally lacking in a specified resource or quality:
  3. Having been legally declared insolvent.

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To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat

• smear

  1. To spread or daub (a surface, for example) with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.
  2. To apply by spreading or daubing:
  3. To cause to be blurry or spread in unwanted places:

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• shellac

  1. A purified lac in the form of thin yellow or orange flakes, often bleached white and widely used in varnishes, paints, inks, sealants, and formerly in phonograph records.
  2. A thin varnish made by dissolving this substance in denatured alcohol, used to finish wood.
  3. An old phonograph record containing this substance, typically played at 78 rpm.

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• cream

  1. The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.
  2. Any of various substances resembling or containing cream:
  3. A pale yellow to yellowish white.

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• clobber

  1. To strike violently and repeatedly; batter or maul.
  2. To defeat decisively.
  3. To criticize harshly.

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• wallop

  1. To beat forcefully; thrash.
  2. To strike with a hard blow:
  3. To defeat thoroughly.

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• massacre

  1. The act or an instance of killing a large number of humans indiscriminately and cruelly.
  2. The slaughter of a large number of animals.
  3. A severe defeat, as in a sports event.

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• vanquish

  1. To defeat or conquer in battle; subjugate.
  2. To defeat in a contest, conflict, or competition.
  3. To overcome or subdue (an emotion, for example); suppress:

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• trounce

  1. To thrash; beat:
  2. To defeat decisively:
  3. To criticize severely:

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• thrash

  1. To strike or beat, especially repeatedly with a flail or stick.
  2. To strike violently; batter:
  3. To swing or strike in a manner suggesting the action of a flail:

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• steamroller

  1. A steam-driven machine equipped with a heavy roller for smoothing road surfaces.
  2. A similar machine with an internal-combustion engine.
  3. A ruthless or irresistible force or power.

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• overwhelm

  1. To surge over and submerge; engulf:
  2. To defeat completely and decisively:
  3. To affect deeply in mind or emotion:

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• overpower

  1. To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue.
  2. To affect so strongly as to make helpless or ineffective; overwhelm.
  3. To supply with excessive mechanical power.

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• drub

  1. To thrash with a stick.
  2. To instill forcefully:
  3. To defeat soundly.

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• crush

  1. To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure:
  2. To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.
  3. To put down with force; subdue:

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• annihilate

  1. To destroy completely:
  2. To reduce to nonexistence:
  3. To defeat decisively:

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A loud striking together

• crash

  1. To break violently or noisily; smash:
  2. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact:
  3. To make a sudden loud noise:

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• clash

  1. To collide with a loud, harsh, usually metallic noise:
  2. To meet in violent conflict:
  3. To be in opposition or disagreement:

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A forceful movement causing a loud noise

• wham

  1. A forceful, resounding blow.
  2. The sound of such a blow.
  3. To strike or crash into with resounding impact.

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• slam

  1. To shut with force and loud noise:
  2. To put, throw, or otherwise forcefully move so as to produce a loud noise:
  3. To hit or strike with great force.

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• crash

  1. To break violently or noisily; smash:
  2. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact:
  3. To make a sudden loud noise:

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• bang

  1. A sudden loud noise, as of an explosion.
  2. A sudden loud blow or bump.
  3. A sudden burst of action:

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An abrupt disastrous failure

• wreck

  1. The act of destroying or the state of being destroyed; destruction:
  2. Accidental destruction of a ship; a shipwreck.
  3. The stranded hulk of a severely damaged ship.

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• smashup

  1. A total collapse or defeat.
  2. A serious collision between vehicles; a wreck.

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• debacle

  1. A sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or defeat; a rout.
  2. A total, often ludicrous failure.
  3. The breaking up of ice in a river.

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• crash

  1. To break violently or noisily; smash:
  2. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact:
  3. To make a sudden loud noise:

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• collapse

  1. To fall down or inward suddenly; cave in.
  2. To break down suddenly in strength or health and thereby cease to function:
  3. To fold compactly:

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• breakdown

  1. The act or process of failing to function or continue.
  2. The condition resulting from this:
  3. The abrupt failure of an insulator or insulating medium to restrict the flow of current.

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Violent forcible contact between two or more things

• shock

  1. A violent collision, impact, or explosion, or the force or movement resulting from this:
  2. Something that suddenly causes emotional distress:
  3. A sudden feeling of distress:

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• percussion

  1. The striking together of two bodies, especially when noise is produced.
  2. The sound, vibration, or shock caused by the striking together of two bodies.
  3. The act of detonating a percussion cap in a firearm.

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• jolt

  1. To move or dislodge with a sudden, hard blow; strike heavily or jarringly:
  2. To cause to move jerkily:
  3. To put into a specified condition by or as if by a blow:

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• jar

  1. A cylindrical glass or earthenware vessel with a wide mouth and usually no handles.
  2. The amount that a jar can hold.
  3. A glass of beer.

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• impact

  1. The striking of one body against another; collision.
  2. The force transmitted by a collision.
  3. The effect or impression of one person or thing on another:

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• crash

  1. To break violently or noisily; smash:
  2. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact:
  3. To make a sudden loud noise:

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• concussion

  1. A violent jarring; a shock:
  2. An injury to an organ, especially the brain, produced by a violent blow and followed by a temporary or prolonged loss of function.

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• collision

  1. An act of colliding; a crash.
  2. A condition of opposition or conflict between two or more people or things:
  3. A brief dynamic event consisting of the close approach of two or more particles, such as atoms, resulting in an abrupt change of momentum or exchange of energy.

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• bump

  1. To strike or collide with:
  2. To cause to knock against an obstacle:
  3. To knock to a new position; shift:

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A wrecking of a vehicle

• pileup

  1. A serious collision usually involving several motor vehicles.
  2. An accumulation:

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• crackup

  1. A crash, as one involving an airplane or automobile.
  2. A mental or physical breakdown.

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• wreck

  1. The act of destroying or the state of being destroyed; destruction:
  2. Accidental destruction of a ship; a shipwreck.
  3. The stranded hulk of a severely damaged ship.

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• smashup

  1. A total collapse or defeat.
  2. A serious collision between vehicles; a wreck.

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• crash

  1. To break violently or noisily; smash:
  2. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact:
  3. To make a sudden loud noise:

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A dazzling, often sudden instance of success

• boffola

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• boffo

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• boff

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• wow

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• ten-strike

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• smash hit

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• sleeper

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• hit

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