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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]
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