Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
- 3transitive verb
To scatter about.
- 4intransitive verb
To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
- 5noun
A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
- 6verb
break into many pieces
"The wine glass shattered"
- 7verb
cause to break into many pieces
"shatter the plate"
- 8verb
damage or destroy
"The news of her husband's death shattered her life"
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