shatter
/ˈʃætɚ/ verb B2- 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
- Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
- To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
He/she/it shatters · Past shattered · Past participle shattered · -ing form shattering
Verb forms
- Base form
- shatter
- He/she/it
- shatters
- Past
- shattered
- Past participle
- shattered
- -ing form
- shattering
From the library
From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.
“Oh, Miss Cuthbert, did you really say that perhaps you would let me stay at Green Gables?” she said, in a breathless whisper, as if speaking aloud might shatter the glorious possibility.
I kept to the pavement after that, Watson, but as I walked down Vere Street a brick came down from the roof of one of the houses, and was shattered to fragments at my feet.
“The old shikari’s nerves have not lost their steadiness, nor his eyes their keenness,” said he, with a laugh, as he inspected the shattered forehead of his bust.
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