Shatter

Quick meaning: Shatter is a verb meaning (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.

Meaning

(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
2. (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
3. (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
4. (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To scatter about.
6. (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
7. (countable, archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.

Example Sentences

to have shattered hopes

to be shattered in intellect

to have a shattered constitution

The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.

Word Forms

• shatters
• shattering
• shattered

Synonyms for shatter

Depending on context, synonyms include shiver, shat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include smashing, loud, break, breaking, burst, crush.

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