shatter vs smash

shatter

verb
  • To violently break something into pieces. 

  • To smash, or break into tiny pieces. 

  • To dispirit or emotionally defeat. 

  • Of seeds: to be dispersed upon ripening. 

  • To destroy or disable something. 

noun
  • A (pine) needle. 

  • A form of concentrated cannabis. 

smash

verb
  • To break (something brittle) violently. 

  • To ruin completely and suddenly. 

  • To be destroyed by being smashed. 

  • To deform through continuous pressure. 

  • To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To hit extremely hard. 

noun
  • Airspeed; dynamic pressure. 

  • A traffic collision. 

  • Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc). 

  • The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together. 

  • A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink. 

  • A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward. 

How often have the words shatter and smash occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )