transitive. To break to pieces; to shatter, rupture; to break down, destroy, demolish; cf. senses of break, v.

transitive. To break into pieces, to shatter. In later use (English regional (Wiltshire)): spec. to break (grain) out of its husk by rubbing in the…

transitive. To break or dash to pieces; also, to disperse, break up (an army).

transitive. To break in pieces, shatter. Also figurative.

transitive. To break, break to pieces; to destroy.

transitive. To break in pieces.

transitive. To cause to burst asunder, to break or dash to pieces, to shatter.

transitive. To dash to pieces; to smash, destroy. Also figurative.

transitive. To break or split into small fragments or splinters.

transitive. To break into shivers, shatter, splinter.

transitive. To break, shiver, or tear in pieces.

intransitive. To tremble, shake, quiver; esp. to tremble with cold or fear.

transitive. To break down, break in pieces, crush, smash. Obsolete.

to crack to pieces, shatter.

transitive. To smash or break to pieces; also, to drive violently into something as with a blow or blows.

transitive. To break to pieces.

transitive. To burst, split.

transitive. To make little or more little, to diminish; to reduce in size, amount, or importance; (also) to belittle. Also with †away.

transitive. To strike (something) hard enough to break or destroy it; to smash or destroy comprehensively or completely. Chiefly with a…

transitive. To break, to smash; to destroy or damage by breaking or smashing. Also figurative. Obsolete.

To disrupt, shatter, cause to fly to pieces (a surface, or thing having extended surface).

To force out of place or position by violent impact; to drive back; to knock down. transitive. Without construction Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive. To shiver or shatter in pieces.

transitive. To splinter, split, break up, lay open or flat.

transitive. To demolish, destroy; to smash, shatter. Obsolete.

transitive. To break (a thing) in pieces; to crush or smash (a person or thing) by blows. Now rare.

transitive. Only in past participle. To break to pieces.

A fragment of broken earthenware. spec. in Archaeology, a piece of broken pottery. Phrase: to break,etc. into sherds: to reduce to fragments, break…

To break in pieces by a sudden blow or concussion; to dash into fragments, disrupt into parts.

transitive. To reduce to ‘truncheons’ or fragments; to break in pieces; to shatter. Also figurative.

transitive. To smash, to break in pieces.

transitive. To shatter.

transitive. To break into small pieces.

transitive. To smash, to break with violence. Obsolete.

transitive. To shatter, splinter.

transitive. transferred and figurative. (Cf. senses 2 3.)

transitive. To break, shatter (rare in physical sense); to break down, crush, destroy; to foil, defeat, frustrate; to cancel, invalidate. Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive. To shiver to pieces.

transitive. To tear, split, or burst open (a blood vessel, membrane, etc.); to cause the rupture of (something). Chiefly (in early use only) Medicine…

transitive. To break or split into splinters or long narrow pieces, or in such a way as to leave a rough jagged end or projections.

To break (a hard solid body) by force or violent impact; to shatter, split, rive. Now dialect.

transitive. To shiver in pieces; to shatter.

figurative. to burst up: to shatter, destroy. Obsolete.

To break in pieces, break small. Obsolete. rare.

To break to pieces, crush.

to blow (shiver, smash, tear,etc.) toor into atoms: to smash, break, etc., into tiny pieces; to reduce to the smallest particles. Cf. smithereens, n.

transitive. To shatter completely.

transitive. To smash.

to shiver to atoms.

transitive. To break in pieces.

To break (anything) in pieces violently; to dash to pieces; to crush, shatter, or shiver.

intransitive. Of an object: to shatter, burst, or break apart violently through the action of pressure, typically from within, scattering fragments…

transitive. To break (something); to render broken, smash; (also) to cause to burst open. Frequently with adverb, as in, open, out, up, etc.

transitive and intransitive. To splinter.

transitive. To smash or blow up into tiny fragments. Also in extended use.

transitive. To break into fragments. Also with off.