Shatter meaning
Shatter is defined as to smash or break into many pieces.
An example of shatter is to break a window by throwing a baseball into the top of the window.
verb
Shatter means broken pieces.
An example of shatter is an area of broken pieces of glass.
noun
To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow.
verb
To break or burst into pieces suddenly, as with a blow.
verb
To break into pieces; smash or burst.
The glass shattered when it hit the floor.
verb
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A fragment or splinter.
A rare piece of porcelain now in shatters.
noun
A scattering collection or spray of fragments.
noun
To scatter; strew.
verb
To damage severely; destroy or wreck.
The accident shattered her peace of mind.
verb
To break or burst into pieces; smash.
verb
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Broken pieces.
noun
To be shattered in intellect; to have shattered hopes, or a shattered constitution.
verb
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Origin of shatter
- Middle English schateren from Old English sceaterian to scatter
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash"), an assilibated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English *scaterian, scateran. Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing"), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate").
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