Breaks
Impacts
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Murphy is allowed to shoot former-OCP officer Dick Jones... who subsequently stumbles backwards from the bullet impacts and breaks through a skyscraper window pane like it wasn't even there.
Source: Soft Glass -
Or you can simply continue to send Hook careening into the ship's walls, masts, and deck boards until he breaks apart from all the repeated impacts.
Source: Video Game / Epic Mickey -
Some characters in Ace Combat The Equestrian War die this way, though the neck-breaks usually happen from impacts of punches and kicks in an all out fight, rather than a stealth attack.
Source: Neck Snap
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