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Definitions for Shatter
[1] to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
[2] to damage, as by breaking or crushing: ships shattered by storms.
[3] to impair or destroy (health, nerves, etc.): The incident shattered his composure.
[4] to weaken, destroy, or refute (ideas, opinions, etc.): He wanted to shatter her illusions.
[5] to be broken into fragments or become weak or insubstantial.
[6] Usually shatters. fragments made by shattering.
[7] to break or be broken into many small pieces
[8] (tr) to impair or destroy his nerves were shattered by the torture
[9] (tr) to dumbfound or thoroughly upset she was shattered by the news
[10] (tr) informal to cause to be tired out or exhausted
[11] an obsolete word for scatter
[12] (usually plural) obsolete , or dialect a fragment
Words related to Shatter
smash, dash, splinter, wreck, ruin, explode, exhaust, demolish, crush, impair, disable, split, fracture, crack, snap, destroy, blast, burst, rattle, devastate
Words nearby Shatter
shastra, shastracara, shastri, shat, shatt-al-arab, shatter, shatter cone, shattered, shatterproof, shaun, shavano peak
Origin of Shatter
1300–50; Middle English schateren < ?; cf. scatter
Other words from Shatter
shat·ter·er , noun
shat·ter·ing·ly , adverb
non·shat·ter , noun
non·shat·ter·ing , adjective
un·shat·tered , adjective
Word origin for Shatter
C12: perhaps obscurely related to scatter
Synonyms for Shatter
blast, burst, crack, crush, dash, demolish, destroy, disable, exhaust, explode, fracture, impair, ruin, smash, snap, splinter, split, wreck, blight, crash, crunch, fragment, fragmentize, implode, overturn, pulverize, rend, rive, scrunch, shiver, smatter, torpedo, total, fragmentalize, smash to smithereens, splinterize, wrack up