Shatter

['ʃætə] or ['ʃætɚ]

Definition

(verb.) break into many pieces; 'The wine glass shattered'.

(verb.) cause to break into many pieces; 'shatter the plate'.

(verb.) damage or destroy; 'The news of her husband's death shattered her life'.

Typist: Ora--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.

(v. t.) To scatter about.

(v. i.) 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; as, to break a glass into shatters.

Checked by Darren

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Shiver, break in pieces, dash into fragments.[2]. Disorder, derange, make insane.

Typist: Richard

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Split, dissipate, disrupt, derange, break_in_pieces, rend, demolish, shiver,dismember, disintegrate

ANT:Construct, organize, collocate, fabricate, compose, rear, constitute

Editor: Maggie

Definition

v.t. to break or dash to pieces: to crack: to disorder: to render unsound.—v.i. to break into fragments.—n. a fragment: impaired state.—adjs. Shatt′er-brained -pā′ted disordered in intellect; Shatt′ery brittle.

Checker: Michelle

Examples

Typist: Meg

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