Shatter

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  • intransitive verb. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow. synonym: break.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To damage seriously; disable.
  • intransitive verb. To cause the destruction or ruin of; destroy.
  • intransitive verb. To break into pieces; smash or burst.
  • noun. A fragment or splinter.
  • noun. A scattering collection or spray of fragments.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A shattered or impaired state.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters
  • transitive verb. To disorder; to derange; to render unsound.
  • transitive verb. To scatter about.
  • noun. A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters.
  • intransitive verb. To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to violently break something into pieces.
  • verb. to destroy or disable something.
  • verb. to smash, or break into tiny pieces.
  • verb. to dispirit or emotionally defeat
  • noun. A fragment of anything shattered.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. break into many pieces
  • verb. damage or destroy
  • verb. cause to break into many pieces
  • Word Usage
    "“Yeah,” he said, and listened to the word shatter like glass."
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    derange  impair  ruin  
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    break  burst  bust  damage  
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    Attar  Hatter  Tatar  antimatter  attar  
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