To scatter; disperse.To break or rend in pieces, as by a single blow; rend, split, or rive into splinters, flinders, or fragments.To break; disorder; derange; impair; destroy: as, shattered nerves; a constitution shattered by dissipation.Synonyms Smash, etc. See dash.To scatter; fly apart; be broken or rent into fragments.n. One part of many into which anything is 'broken; a fragment: used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase to break or rend into shatters.n. A shattered or impaired state.Of cereals, to scatter the grain on account of overripeness.Of soils, to fall into flakes or meal-like particles from the action of the weather instead of harsh angular particles as when broken by implements.