Crash vs. Shatter — What's the Difference?

To break violently or noisily; smash

To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow.

To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact

To damage seriously; disable

To make a sudden loud noise

To cause the destruction or ruin of; destroy

To move noisily or so as to cause damage

To break into pieces; smash or burst

To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.

Often shatters A fragment or splinter

(Computers) To stop functioning due to a crash.

A scattering collection or spray of fragments

(Slang) To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.

(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.

To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.

(transitive) To destroy or disable something.

To fall asleep from exhaustion.

(intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.

To cause to crash

(transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.

To dash to pieces; smash

Of seeds: to be dispersed upon ripening.

(Informal) To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.

(obsolete) To scatter about.

A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking

A fragment of anything shattered.

A smashing to pieces.

A (pine) needle.

A collision, as between two automobiles.

A form of concentrated cannabis.

A sudden severe downturn

To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.

A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.

To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.

A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.

To scatter about.

(Slang) Mental depression after drug-taking.

To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.

A coarse, light, unevenly woven fabric of cotton or linen, used for towels and curtains.

A fragment of anything shattered; - used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.

Starched reinforced fabric used to strengthen a book binding or the spine of a bound book.

Break into many pieces;

Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish

Break into many pieces;

A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.

An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

(computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

(finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).

(informal) A comedown from a drug.

(collective) A group of rhinoceroses.

(ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.

(textiles) A type of rough linen.

Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

(intransitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.

(transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.

To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.

To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.

To give, as a favor.

To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.

To terminate extraordinarily.

To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

(intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.

(transitive) To hit or strike with force

To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.

To make a sudden loud noise.

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

To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.

To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.

Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

A loud resonant repeating noise;

A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles);

A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

The act of colliding with something;

(computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative;

Fall or come down violently;

Move with, or as if with, a crashing noise;

Undergo damage or destruction on impact;

Move violently as through a barrier;

Break violently or noisily; smash;

Occupy, usually uninvited;

Enter uninvited; informal;

Cause to crash;

Hurl or thrust violently;

Undergo a sudden and severe downturn;

Stop operating;

Sleep in a convenient place;