Definition of shatter Shatter

/ʃæˈtɚ/ - [shater] - shat•ter

We found 16 definitions of shatter from 6 different sources.

What does shatter mean?

Verb shatters, shattering, shattered
shatter - break into many pieces; "The wine glass shattered"
		bust, burst come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst"
shatter - cause to break into many pieces; "shatter the plate"
		break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"
shatter - damage or destroy; "The news of her husband's death shattered her life"
		damage inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"

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

shatter
shat′ėr, v.t. to break or dash to pieces: to crack: to disorder: to render unsound.—v.i. to break into fragments.—n. a fragment: impaired state.—adjs. Shatt′er-brained, -pā′ted, disordered in intellect; Shatt′ery, brittle. [Scatter.]