Shatter

Definition: Shatter

Shatter

Verb

1. Break into many pieces; "The wine glass shattered".

2. Break into many pieces; "shatter the plate".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shatter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Impotence

Shatter, exhaust, weaken.

Insanity

Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head.

Crosswords: Shatter

Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can shatter my soul. (references; author: unknown)

Sheath thy sword, the surly sheriff said, "or surely shall a churlish serf soon shatter thee. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

You may break, you may shatter his name if you will; the administration will cling to him still. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "shatter": shatter crack ♦ shatter cut ♦ shatter index ♦ Shatter properties ♦ shatter strength ♦ shatter to pieces. Additional references.

Beginning with "shatter": Shatter-brained, Shatter-pated, shatter-proof, shatter-resistant.

Albanian

shpartalloj (crush, discomfit, hammer, rout, scatter, smash, whitewash), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), thyej (bend, break, break to pieces, cash, change, crack up, demolish, fold, fracture, hurt, mammock, maul, mill, refract, rupture, shiver, sliver, smash, snap, Spall, split, stamp, transgress, worst, wreck), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), gërric (rip, scatter, scrabble, scratch, slit, tear), copra (riband, ribbons, smithereens, snippets, tatters). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crash, crush, defeat, double, fold, fraction, fracture, fracturing, infringe, pleat, rout, shattering, smash, smashing, tuck, vanquish, violate), ‏هشم (pull down, pulverize, smash, stave), ‏حطم (break, break up, crack, dash, disintegrate, extinguish, shipwreck, shiver, sink, smash, undo, wrack, wreak, wreck), ‏تكسر (break, crack, fragmentation, fritter, splinter), ‏تهشم (crash, fall to pieces, fragmentation, smash, snap), ‏تلف الصحة, ‏تحطيم (smashing), ‏تحطم (crash, disintegrate, disintegration, shattering, shiver, smash), ‏أرهق الأعصاب, ‏بعثر (disarrange, disturb, disunite, litter, rummage, scatter). (various references)

Basque

puskatu (cut to, shatter to), ebaki (cut to, shatter to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разтрошавам (crush, moulder away), разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), раздробявам (breaking up into smaller units, crumble, fritter), подкопавам (break, mine, sap, undercut, undermine). (various references)

Chinese 

粉碎 (Comminute, Comminuted, Comminuting, Crumbled), �"碎 . (various references)

Czech

roztrousit (intersperse), roztříštit (fritter, shiver, smash, splinter, split), rozbít se (break up, come apart), rozbít (break, break up, bust, crack, dash, destroy, pitch, smash, sunder, wreck), otřást (concuss, rock, shock, thrill, unsettle). (various references)

Danish

knuse (crush, smash). (various references)

Dutch

vermorzelen (crush, smash), intrappen (crush, smash). (various references)

Esperanto

frakasi (crush, smash). (various references)

Faeroese

sora (crush, smash), smildra (crush, smash), knúsa (crush, grind, pulverize, smash). (various references)

Farsi 

قطعات شکسته(درجمع), خردکردن (Break, Comminute, Crash, Cutdown, Disintegrate, Fragment, Grind, Hack, Hash, Impinge, Infract, Joint, Mangle, Mash, Maul, Mince, Pestle, Shiver, Smash, Smite, Squelch), شکستن (Break, Chop, Cleave, Crackle, Disobey, Fraction, Fracture, Infract, Infraction, Nick, Refract, Smite, Stave, Violate), داغان کردن . (various references)

Finnish

murskata (break, crush, smash). (various references)

French

briser, fracasser (shiver). (various references)

German

zerschmettern (crush, smash, to dash to pieces, to shatter, to smash, to smash to pieces), zerrütten (break up, destroy, ruin, subvert, to shatter, to subvert, wreck). (various references)

Greek 

θρυμματίζω (break into pieces, crumble, fritter, smash). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשבר (break, crush, demolish, smash, wreck), לפורר (crumble, flake, granulate, rice, undermine), לפצפץ, ל�"ת� פץ (smash), ל�"רוס (bane, blight, demolish, destroy, havoc, pull down, ravage, ruin, tear down, wreck), ל� פץ (dash, detonate, explode, pound, shipwreck, smash, splinter). (various references)

Hungarian

szilánk (chip, flaw, flinders, fragment, shard, sherd, shiver, sliver, spall, splint, splinter, splintering), törmelék (chippings, debris, detritus, offal, potsherd, refuse, rubbish, rubble, scrap, slump scraps, wreckage), összezúz (contuse, crash, mash, to bray, to bruise, to contuse, to crash, to crush up, to mash, to shatter, to smash), összetör (beat, dash, knap, smash, to break into shivers, to crash, to crush up, to shatter, to shiver, to smash, to smash up). (various references)

Italian

rovinare (be ruined, blast, blight, break, collapse, crash, damn, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, kill, nip, pull down, put pay, ruin, scuttle, spoil, undo, waste, wreck), infrangere (break, dash, infringe, smash, violate), frantumarsi (crumble), frantumare (break up, crumble, crush, grind, pestle, rag, rupture, shiver, slab, smash, stamp, to shatter), fracassarsi, distruggere (abolishes, blast, consume, dash, destroy, exterminate, kill, nip, obliterate, overwhelm, quash, rase, raze, shoot down, smash, smash up, tear apart, undo, unmake, wreck), compromettere (compromise, prejudice), andare in pezzi (wreck). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

叩き壊す (to shatter, to tear down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たたき�"わす (to shatter, to tear down). (various references)

Korean 

파편 (debris, fragment, fragmentation). (various references)

Manx

smoashal (break, crash, smash), scryssey magh (abolishment, abolition, amortize, attrition, blot out, blur, blur as vision, delete, deletion, efface, erase, erasure, obliterate, obliteration, scratch out, scrub, strike off, wear off), mynvrishey (pulverization, pulverize, smash, smash up). (various references)

Occitan

copar (break, cut). (various references)

Pig Latin

attershay.(various references)

Portuguese

quebrar (basil, be bankrupt, breach, break, chip, crack, crush, disintegrate, disrupt, flaw, fracture, grind, knap, knock in, outbreak, smash, split, violate), esmagar (bash, basil, bray, break, bruise, crush, jam, kibble, lead on, mash, meal, overwhelm, pound, press, pulverize, smash, squash, squelch, suppress, triturate, whelm). (various references)

Romanian

sminti pe cineva, sfãrâma (batter, burst, crack, crackle, crunch, destroy, disrupt, fritter, granulate, grind, knap, mill, ruin, shiver, smash, split), se sfãrâma (crash, split), zdruncina (concuss, convulse, jog, jolt, shake, shock, stagger, undermine, unstring, weaken), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), dejuca (baffle, balk, baulk, counterwork, defeat, disappoint, discomfit, foil, frustrate, thwart), dãrâma (annihilate, batter, blight, break down, crack, crumble, crush, demolish, destroy, frustrate, pull down, raze, ruin, throw down, wreck). (various references)

Russian 

расстраивать (baffle, blow up, defeat, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, distune, disturb, faze, frustrate, thwart, unnerve, unsettle, untune, upset), расшатывать (depolarise, unstring), разрушать (attack, break, broke, cast down, defeated, demolish, destroy, disestablish, erode, make havoc of, play havoc, play havoc among, play havoc with, play hell, play the devil, play the mischief, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wracked, wreck), разбивать (break up, defeat, demolish, drub, scatter, smashes, split up, trounce), обломок (chip, debris, detritus, fragment, mammock, splinter, stub, stump), поколебать (shake). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slomljenost, slomiti (break, crack, crush, destroy, fracture), skrhati (crush, overwhelm), razbiti (break, break down, bust up, crack, crash, overwhelm, smash), rastrojstvo (anomie, chaos, derangement). (various references)

Spanish

romper (begin, break, break down, break off, cleave, cut through, initiate, interrupt, leak, open, smash, smash down, smash in, snap, snap off, sunder, take apart, tear), quebrantar (break, disrupt, leak, shake, tear, tear up, throw over, unbuild, undermine), hacerse pedazos (break, break up, leak, smash), hacer añicos (shiver), estallar (bang, blow up, break, break forth, break out, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, flare up, go off, go up, outbreak, puncture), echar por tierra (cast down, dispose of, knock down), destruir (demolish, destroy, encourage, invalidate, kill, knock down, pulp, quash, ravage, smash), destrozar (break, bust, plough up, pull apart, ravage, take apart, tear apart, total, trash), dejar pasmado. (various references)

Sranan

masi (crush, mast, smash). (various references)

Swedish

splittras (disunite, fragment), splittra (cleave, disunite, divide, fragment, fritter, Rive, shiver, splinter), krossa (Bray, break, bruise, crash, crunch, crush, dash, flatten, fracture, mill, pulverize, quash, scotch, scrunch, smash, squelch, steamroller). (various references)

Turkish

zarar vermek (damage, do a disservice, do harm, encroach, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, infest, injure, prejudice, scathe, scourge, spite), yok etmek (charm away, clear off, cut off, cut up, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, do away with, efface, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, make away with, spirit away, spirit off, sponge out, stamp, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out), yıkmak (batter down, blast, blow down, break down, confound, dash, demolish, destroy, do for, drag down, explode, extinguish, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, puncture, ravage, ruin, shoot down, split, subvert, take down, unbuild), parçalanmak (break, break to pieces, break up, come apart, crash, crumble, crush, decay, digest, disintegrate, disrupt, fall to pieces, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, rend, rupture, shiver, shred, smash, Spall, splinter, split, split off), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, dash, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, Spall, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), kırılmak (be broken, be hurt, be offended, be piqued at, break, break off, chip, crash, crush, explode, fracture, go to pieces, offend, Rive, sink, snap), harap etmek (destroy, devastate, dilapidate, make havoc of, play havoc with, ravage, ruin, tear up, waste, work havoc), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references)

Turkmen 

seзmek (choose), mynjyratmak (smash), mynjyramak (break inpieces), kьl-peekun etmek (break, smash). (various references)

Ukrainian

розколотися, розколоти, розладнувати (circumvent, counterwork, derange, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disturb, frustrate, overset, unfix, unhinge, unsettle). (various references)

Welsh

dryllio (break in pieces), chwilfriwio (smash). (various references)

adflicta, comminuam, comminuens, comminuerentur, comminuerunt, comminues, comminuet, comminuetis, comminuetur, comminuisset, comminuit, comminuite, comminuta, comminutus, concussa, concussae, concussit, concussum, concutiam, concutiatis, concutiatur, concutiens, concutientis, concutientur, concutio, concutitur, conquassata, elidantur, elidatur, elides, elidet, elidit, elisa, elisabeth, elisi, elisisti, elisit, elisus, fractae, fracti, fractione, fractionis, fractis, fracto, fractum, fractura, fracturam, fractus, frange, frangebat, frangendum, frangensque, frangent, frangentes, frangerentur, frangeret, franges, frangetur, frangimus, frangit, frango, frango, fracta, fregerunt, fregi, fregisset, fregit, helisu, quasso, rumpi, rumpo, rumpo, rumpi, rumpus. (various references)

gebrecan. (various references)

bruisier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "shatter": shattered, shattering, shatteringly, shatterproof, shatters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shatter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dhater, Schacter, Schechter, Schotter, shadder, Shapter, shaste, Shate, shatner, Shatton, shitler, shitten, shitter, shlatter, shmatte, shotted, shotter, shutten, shvartzer, statter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hatters, threats.

-1 letter: earths, haters, hatter, hearts, stater, strath, taster, taters, tetras, thetas, threat, treats.

-2 letters: aster, earth, haets, hares, harts, haste, hater, hates, hears, heart, heats, rates, rathe, rheas, share, shear, stare, start, state, tahrs, tares, tarts, taste, tater, tates, tears, teats, testa, teths, tetra, theta, trash, treat, trets.

-3 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, ears.

+1 letter: chatters, earthset, farthest, ratchets, rheostat, shatters, theaters, theatres.

+2 letters: attachers, catheters, earthiest, earthnuts, earthsets, earthstar, hatterias, heartiest, hesitater, northeast, rheostats, shattered, tetrarchs, thatchers, theatrics, theocrats, therapist, threatens, thwarters, trachytes, trashiest, wrathiest.

+3 letters: aftermaths, anorthites, architects, athrocytes, bathwaters, betrothals, birthdates, birthrates, breathiest, charlottes, chatterers, clathrates, deathtraps, earthliest, earthstars, entrechats, hartebeest, heartbeats, heatstroke, hesitaters, larghettos, northeasts, reattaches, rheostatic, shattering, starchiest, stealthier, stepfather, straighted, straighten, straighter, strathspey, swarthiest, sweatshirt, sweetheart, therapists, thermostat, threadiest, throatiest, thwartwise, tracheitis, ultraheats.