SHATTER
\ʃˈatə], \ʃˈatə], \ʃ_ˈa_t_ə]\
Definitions of SHATTER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
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To scatter about.
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To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
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A fragment of anything shattered; - used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
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To scatter about.
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To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
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A fragment of anything shattered; - used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To break so that the pieces are scattered: to break or dash to pieces: to crack: to disorder: to render unsound.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald