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shatter

UK /ˈʃætə/US /ˈʃætɚ/

verb 6
noun 4
forms 5
phrases 1

verb6

•
Of brittle solid materials (like glass or ice), to violently break into pieces.
- The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
- a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass
To destroy, disable.
•
To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- to be shattered in intellect
- to have shattered hopes
•
To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- The heavens opened up, and the rain shattered down. She trailed a finger down the window, following drops of water as they splashed and wept down the pane. — 2008
•
Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
- Harvesting is done much as with alfalfa, but alsike seed is small and shatters if it is not handled carefully. — 1961
•
(no longer used) To scatter about.
- Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. — 1637

noun4

(slang) A form of concentrated cannabis.
A (pine) needle.
•
A scattering, a smattering; a quantity of something scattered, like a sprinkling of seeds or a shower of rain.
- There's a tidy shatter of sin already in the Fee, says Parson. Ah, says I, but us can't all be saints like yourself, Parson. — 1931
•
(no longer used) A fragment of anything shattered.
- to break a glass into shatters

forms

shattered · shattering · shattereth · shatters · shatterest

Phrases with shatter

shatter the ice
To break the ice in a sudden or dramatic fashion.

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