shatter

shatter is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 9 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
3. transitive verb. To scatter about.
4. intransitive verb. To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
5. noun. A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
6. verb. break into many pieces

   "The wine glass shattered"

7. verb. cause to break into many pieces

   "shatter the plate"

8. verb. damage or destroy

   "The news of her husband's death shattered her life"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shatter:

hatters, rathest, threats

Common word forms

shatters, shattered, shatterer, shattering, shatterable, shatterment

Words from these letters

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