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Definition of Shatter
1. Verb. Break into many pieces. "The glass tubes shatter"; "The wine glass shattered"
2. Verb. Damage or destroy. "The news of her husband's death shattered her life"
3. Verb. Cause to break into many pieces. "They shatter the glass tubes"; "Shatter the plate"
Definition of Shatter
1. 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.
2. v. i. To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
3. n. A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
Definition of Shatter
1. Verb. (transitive) to violently break something into pieces. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to destroy or disable something. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) to smash, or break into tiny pieces. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) to dispirit or emotionally defeat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shatter
1. to break into pieces [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shatter
Literary usage of Shatter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... and all the teeth came shatter'd forth ; His eyeballs fill'd with blood ; for
breath he gasp'd Through nostrils and through lips distended wide ..."
2. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"The shatter mining district supports the only successful silver mines of Texas.
... shatter is located 196 miles southeast of El Paso, in the Chinati ..."
3. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"The shatter mining district supports the only successful silver mines of Texas.
... shatter is located 196 miles southeast of El Paso, in the Chinati ..."
4. Publications by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"L. shatter, and Lorenzo Sawyer were nominated for justices of the supreme court,
on the first ballot, over Walter Van Dyke, George W. Tyler, H. 0. ..."
5. A century of printing. The issues of the press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784 by Charles Swift R. Hildeburn (1885)
"... at Lord L - 'a the Night after the Battle of Culloden ; and by his Order
distributed among the Remains of his shatter 'd Army before they dispersed. ..."
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