shatter
Plural: shatters
Verb
Verb Forms: shattered, shattering, shatters
- To break into many pieces suddenly and violently.
- break into many pieces
- "The wine glass shattered"
- damage or destroy
- "The news of her husband's death shattered her life"
- cause to break into many pieces
- "shatter the plate"
- To violently break something into pieces.
- To destroy or disable something.
- To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- Of seeds: to be dispersed upon ripening.
- To scatter about.
Noun
- A fragment of anything shattered.
- A (pine) needle.
- A form of concentrated cannabis.
Examples
- a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass
- His hopes would shatter if he couldn’t find a place for his ’Z’ in Words With Friends.
- The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
- The old oak tree has been shattered by lightning.
- to be shattered in intellect
- to break a glass into shatters
- to have a shattered constitution
- to have shattered hopes
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.
Scrabble Score: 10
shatter: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordshatter: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shatter: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary