glass shard
Sharp transparent piece
A glass shard is a sharp, jagged piece of broken glass.
Shards result from windows shattering, bottles breaking, or any glass fragmenting under impact.
The term emphasizes the dangerous quality—glass shards cut easily and embed in skin: She picked glass shards out of the carpet after the vase fell.
- brokenDamaged beyond function
- fragmentIncomplete portion of whole
- jaggedSharply uneven, notched
- sharpFine-edged, or astute
- sharp edgeHoned cutting surface
splinter · cut · shatter · window · bottle · slice · edge · transparent · bloody · crime scene · glint · crystal · debris · crack · pierce · wound · brittle · dangerous
- foreign bodiessplinter, fish bone, bullet, shrapnel, metal fragment
- Eye Injuriesscratched cornea, black eye, chemical burn, foreign body, retinal detachment
- fragmentsfragment, splinter, sliver, chip, shred
- sharp edgesknife blade, razor blade, scalpel, box cutter, axe blade
- sharp objectsknife, blade, razor, scalpel, sword
- small objectsbead, button, coin, penny, dime
glass shardwindowpane
Sheet of glass
glass pane · glass panel · glass bottle · drinking glass · mirror
glass shardsafety glass
Pane designed to crumble
polished surface · tempered glass · laminated glass · foam · cushion
glass, shard, glasses, glassy, glassware, glasslike, glazed, glaze, glazing