Synonyms for shattering
shat·ter·ing

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1. smashing, shatteringadjective

   the act of breaking something into small pieces

   Synonyms:
   smashing

   Antonyms:
   soft

2. shatteringadjective

   seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering

   "shattering rain striking the windowpanes"; "the shattering tones of the enormous carillon"; "the shattering peal of artillery"

   Antonyms:
   soft

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1. List of paraphrases for "shattering":

   exploding

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1. Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein:

   This, in turn, could expand the conflict beyond Yemen's borders, potentially shattering regional stability.

2. Benjamin F Sullivan:

   God is discovered entirely through creation - the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of space and its countless stars. God is the mastermind behind all matter - every earth shattering scientific discovery and mystery that is yet to be unraveled was dreamed and enacted by God.

3. Jerry Boykin:

   The shooter, Floyd Corkins, came into our building armed with a 9 mm pistol, two ammunition clips of 15 rounds in his front pocket, the rounds in the gun, and a box of 50 additional rounds, he also had 15 individually wrapped Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He was not puffing things up when he told the investigators that he intended ‘to kill as many people as [he] could.’ He shot our building manager, Leo Johnson, shattering the major bones of his left arm. Even after taking a bullet, Leo heroically tackled the shooter putting a stop to what would have been a mass murder. Corkins was later convicted of domestic terrorism in Washington, D.C.

4. George Orwell, 1984:

   War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

5. Jeff Kravetz:

   We did get that great GDP number … noting earth-shattering but confirmation the U.S. economy is really doing well and firing on all metrics.