Shards

/ʃɑɹdz/

Synonyms for "shards" (49 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (10)

bones chaff deadwood dishwater dregs dust

Noun(4 words)

break breakage breakages divide

Strong matches (15)

filings garbage gash hogwash husk leavings lees offal offscourings orts paring rag

Noun(3 words)

fragment partition piece

Related words (24)

rasping refuse rinsing scouring scrapscrap ironscum shard shaving slack slag slop slops stubble sweepings swill tare waste weed

Noun(5 words)

remnant segment shatter shivers trace

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

8 entries

breakage damagedata distributiondatabase partitioningfragment fragmentation remnantscaling technique

More specific

12 entries

ceramic shardcultural shardgeographic shardglass shardhash shardhistorical shardmemory shardnetwork shardporcelain shardpottery shardrange shardstone shard

Collocations

11 entries

archaeological shardbroken shardceramic sharddata shardingdatabase shardingglass shardhash shardpottery shardrange shardshard keysharp shard

Inflections

2 entries

sharded sharding

Derivations

4 entries

reshard shard sharded sharding

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

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The anthropologist is piecing together pottery shards she unearthed at the excavation site.

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The shards of thought were scattered on the ground.

Source: tatoeba (1689019)

I broke a glass - try not to step on the shards before I clean them up.

Source: tatoeba (4049834)

Don't walk on the shards of the broken bottle.

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