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shatter
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Shatter (disambiguation); Shattering; Shatters
(shatters, shattering, shattered)
1.
If something shatters or is shattered, it breaks into a lot of small pieces.
...safety glass that won't shatter if it's broken...
The car shattered into a thousand burning pieces in a 200mph crash...
One bullet shattered his skull.
VERB: V, V into n, V n
• shattering
...the shattering of glass.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If something shatters your dreams, hopes, or beliefs, it completely destroys them.
A failure would shatter the hopes of many people...
Something like that really shatters your confidence.
VERB: V n, V n
3.
If someone is shattered by an event, it shocks and upsets them very much.
He had been shattered by his son's death.
...the tragedy which had shattered his life.
VERB: be V-ed, V n
4.
shatter
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Shatter (disambiguation); Shattering; Shatters
¦ verb
1. break or cause to break suddenly and violently into pieces.
damage or destroy.
2. upset greatly.
3. [as adjective shattered] Brit. informal exhausted.
Derivatives
shatterer noun
shattering adjective
shatteringly adverb
shatterproof adjective
Origin
ME: perh. imitative; cf. scatter.
Shatter
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Shatter (disambiguation); Shattering; Shatters
·vt To scatter about.
II. Shatter ·vi To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
III. Shatter ·noun A fragment of anything shattered;
- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
IV. Shatter ·vt To Disorder; to Derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
V. Shatter ·vt To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
Examples of use of shatter
1. Something that would test my community and shatter my family.
2. These deaths cause unimaginable suffering to families and shatter communities.
3. The windows of the office, however, did not shatter.
4. "England Shatter French Dreams," was the headline in Le Parisien Dimanche.
5. Sadly, family–like disagreements were allowed to shatter lives and destroy livelihoods in entire South Sudan.