Shattering

verb

Word Frequency: 1.4

Definitions

1.verbTo violently break something into pieces.

"The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks."

2.verbTo destroy or disable something.

3.verbTo smash, or break into tiny pieces.

4.verbTo dispirit or emotionally defeat

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

5.verbTo scatter about.

6.nounThe act of something that shatters; the shattered material

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