Word Meaning

shatter definition and meaning

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.
v. t. To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
v. t. To scatter about.
v. i. To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
n. A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.

Crossword clues for shatter

- Break
- Break in pieces
- Break needed in first scene with mad character
- Break suddenly
- Fall to pieces
- Smash
- Smash into pieces