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
- Within the last decade or so shells have been invented with the design simply to shatter or fracture the plate by which the way is broken for subsequent shots. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Too much, and she would shatter herself, she would fill the fine vial of her soul too quickly, and it would break. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No more is needed to completely shatter the last remnant of my superstitious belief in the divinity of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In work of this nature it had been customary, as above stated, to depend upon a high explosive, such as dynamite, to shatter and break the ore to lumps of one hundred pounds or less. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Judaism is indeed the reconstructed political ideal of many shattered peoples--mainly Semitic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After Ireland came Scotland, where Cromwell shattered a Royalist army at the Battle of Dunbar (1650). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He has taken to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his nervous system is shattered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The man's skull had been shattered by a blow from a poker delivered from behind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We pass on now to the story of one futile commencement, one glorious shattered beginning of human unity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Almost at the instant of impact I turned my bows upward, and then with a shattering jolt we were in collision. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Suddenly there was an explosion, shattering the chemical apparatus and probably alarming the whole building. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Not least among the blessings is a shattering of the good-and-bad-man theory: the assassination of tyrants or the adoration of saviors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was a quite typical instance of that silly firmness which shatters empires. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For this purpose a dynamite cartridge is exploded at the lower end of the well, which shatters the rock, and, in opening up new channels of flow for the oil, renews the yield. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Meg