shatter
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