shatter

(noun, verb)

noun

1. (archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.

verb

1. break into many pieces

- The wine glass shattered

Definition categories: change, burst, bust

2. damage or destroy

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

Definition categories: change, damage

3. cause to break into many pieces

- shatter the plate

Definition categories: change, break

Sentences with shatter as a verb:

- The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.

- a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass

- The old oak tree has been shattered by lightning.

- to be shattered in intellect; to have shattered hopes, or a shattered constitution