Shatter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow.
  • v. To damage seriously; disable: His health was shattered by the disease.
  • v. To cause the destruction or ruin of; destroy: The outcome of the conflict shattered our dreams of peace and prosperity.
  • verb-intransitive. To break into pieces; smash or burst. See Synonyms at break.
  • n. The act of shattering.
  • n. The condition of being shattered.
  • n. A splintered or fragmented condition. Often used in the plural: a rare piece of porcelain now in shatters.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to violently break something into pieces.
  • v. to destroy or disable something.
  • v. to smash, or break into tiny pieces.
  • v. to dispirit or emotionally defeat
  • n. A fragment of anything shattered.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters
  • v. To disorder; to derange; to render unsound.
  • v. To scatter about.
  • verb-intransitive. To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
  • n. A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. break into many pieces
  • v. damage or destroy
  • v. cause to break into many pieces
  • Verb Form
    shattered    shattering    shatters   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bust    burst    damage    break   
    Cross Reference
    ruin    impair    derange   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    disorder    derange   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Attar    Hatter    Tatar    antimatter    attar    batter    blatter    chatter    clatter    fatter   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts