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shatter
[ shat-er ]
verb (used with object)
- to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
Synonyms: , ,
- to damage, as by breaking or crushing:
ships shattered by storms.
- to impair or destroy (health, nerves, etc.):
The incident shattered his composure.
- to weaken, destroy, or refute (ideas, opinions, etc.):
He wanted to shatter her illusions.
verb (used without object)
- to be broken into fragments or become weak or insubstantial.
noun
- Usually shatters. fragments made by shattering.
shatter
/ ˈʃæə /
verb
- to break or be broken into many small pieces
- tr to impair or destroy
his nerves were shattered by the torture
- tr to dumbfound or thoroughly upset
she was shattered by the news
- informal.tr to cause to be tired out or exhausted
- an obsolete word for scatter
noun
- obsolete.usually plural a fragment
Derived Forms
- ˈٳٱԲ, adverb
- ˈٳٱԲ, adjective
- ˈٳٱ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- t· noun
- t·Բ· adverb
- ԴDz·t noun
- ԴDz·t·ing adjective
- ܲ·t adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of shatter1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Gretzky, who was in the crowd at the Capital One Arena to see his record shattered, also drew cheers from the crowd.
“And finally tonight, a bodega was robbed in Brooklyn this week. The burglars shattered the store's front door, emptied the cash register and set fire to the ATM. When asked why –”
“Yeah, but he shattered the front door of a bodega,” Meyers said.
But then something miraculous happened, “Rose’s Turn,” the show’s shattering finale, and the path McDonald had been forging as Rose all along suddenly became transcendently clear.
Before, “we never see children with bilateral amputation. It’s something horrible to see, actually,” he told Salon in a phone interview in December, before the oft-abused, now shattered truce.
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