shatter
About 0.86 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb Of brittle solid materials (like glass or ice), to violently break into pieces.
The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
- verb To destroy, disable.
- verb To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
to be shattered in intellect
- verb Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
- verb To scatter about.
- verb To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- noun A fragment of anything shattered.
to break a glass into shatters
- noun A (pine) needle.
Similar words
smashing loud break breaking burst crush crash smash obliterate sever
Often followed by
the it and his a into their all her
Word family
shattered shattering shatteringly shatters
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