Thesaurus: shatter

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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. t. To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
3. v. t. To scatter about.
4. v. i. To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
5. n. A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
6. v. break into many pieces
7. v. damage or destroy
8. v. cause to break into many pieces
9. To be broken into fragments; to falSome fragile bodies break but where the force is; some shatter andfly in many places. Bacon.
10. v:100 v. break into many pieces v. damage or destroy v. cause to break into many pieces