Shattered

Definition: Shattered

Shattered

Adjective

1. Broken into sharp pieces; "shattered glass"; "your eyeglasses are smashed"; "the police came in through the splintered door".

2. Ruined or disrupted; "our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity"; "a tattered remnant of its former strength"; "my torn and tattered past".

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Date "shattered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Slang

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Synonyms: Shattered

Fatigue

Worn, worn out; battered,worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.

Impotence

Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf.

Weakness

Broken, lame, withered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit.

Crosswords: Shattered

Ferocious winds gusting up to 59 mph tore through Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, Nov. 5, causing severe damage to base property. Building 1564/1565, a combined warehouse, received the most noticeable damage, when the wind gusts shattered windows and toppled.

First Aid station located in the basement of a shattered house ... / U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The shattered hull of the Charnasilla on the beach at Arica, Chile, following the 13 August 1868 tidal wave that washed her and other vessels ashore. Ship partially visible at right is the Peruvian warship America. Credit: NAVY.

Navy pilot Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Denny Earl, with both legs shattered by North Vietnamese anti-aircraft fire, successfully lands his A-4 "Skyhawk" attack plane aboard the Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin, 20 October 1967. The nylon emergency barrier assures the wounded pilot that he will not have to make more than one attempt to land his plane. Photographed by PHC Neal Crowe. Credit: NAVY.

Wrecked ships in Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa soon after the storm. The view looks northwestward, with the shattered bow of the German gunboat Eber on the beach in the foreground. The stern of USS Trenton is at right, with the sunken USS Vandalia alongside. The German gunboat Adler is on her side in the center distance. Trenton's starboard quarter gallery has been largely ripped away. Credit: NAVY.

"Sheers for hoisting the guns of the Trenton. The bow of the Eber & wreck of the Adler" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows one of USS Trenton's heavy guns after it was hauled ashore using the sheer arrangement in the foreground. The shattered bow of the German gunboat Eber is on the beach by the sheer leg, and the German gunboat Adler is on her side in the right distance. Credit: NAVY.

Gorbachev beholds a shattered hammer and sickle. Credit: Library of Congress.

Famous inn shattered by bombs. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. forces inflict heavy casualties on Japs in capture of Buna, New Guinea. On the beach of Buna Mission, last point of Japanese resistance in the Papuan section of New Guinea, the bodies of slain Japanese soldiers lie a few steps from their shattered la. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shattered outbuilding and debris in an Indiana farmyard. 1937 flood. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Let us therefore consider a master of a family with all these subordinate relations of wife, children, servants, and slaves, united under the domestic rule of a family; which, what resemblance soever it may have in its order, offices, and number too, with a little common-wealth, yet is very far from it, both in its constitution, power and end: or if it must be thought a monarchy, and the paterfamilias the absolute monarch in it, absolute monarchy will have but a very shattered and short power, when it is plain, by what has been said before, that the master of the family has a very distinct and differently limited power, both as to time and extent, over those several persons that are in it; for excepting the slave (and the family is as much a family, and his power as paterfamilias as great, whether there be any slaves in his family or no) he has no legislative power of life and death over any of them, and none too but what a mistress of a family may have as well as he. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Fate abruptly brought together, and wedded with its resistless power, these two shattered lives, dissimilar in years, but similar in sorrow

The words of doom cried by the angel shattered in an instant his presumptuous peace

In front of her tent, the woman still looked at her shattered hand

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Health

Another complication may occur if the shattered stone particles cause discomfort as they pass through the urinary tract. (references)

In some cases, the doctor will insert a small tube called a stent through the bladder into the ureter to help the fragments pass. Sometimes the stone is not completely shattered with one treatment, and additional treatments may be needed. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

Sikder was later transferred to Dhaka's National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases where the attending doctors amputated his right leg, which had been shattered by bullets. (references)

Economic History

Cote d'Ivoire

On January 7, 2001 another coup attempt shattered the temporary calm. (references)

Austria

In the early 1930s, worldwide depression and unemployment added to these strains and shattered traditional Austrian society. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shattered": be shattered ♦ shattered smashed splintered. Additional references.

Ending with "shattered": bomb-shattered, frost-shattered, shell-shattered, war-shattered, wind-shattered.

Chinese 

冲垮 (shattering). (various references)

Finnish

murtunut (broken, fractured). (various references)

French

fracassai, fracassés, fracassée, fracassèrent. (various references)

German

zerrüttet (broken, disordered, disorders, subverts, unstrung), zerschmetterte (dashed, smashed to pieces). (various references)

Greek 

κατακερματισμένος, τσακισμένος (overwhelmed). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ� ופץ (broken). (various references)

Hungarian

megviselt, megtört (broken, gambrel roof, lack-lustre, refracted), meghiúsult (baffled, blighted, disconcerted, frustrate, withered), darabokra tört (fragmented), összezúzott, összetört. (various references)

Italian

sconvolto (distracted, distraught, unsettled, upset), distrutto (destructs, wrecks). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �れた夢 (shattered dream). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

やぶれたゆめ (shattered dream). (various references)

Korean 

박살내�". (various references)

Manx

smoashit (crushed, smashed), scryssit magh (erased), mynvrisht (smashed). (various references)

Pig Latin

atteredshay.(various references)

Romanian

dãrãpãnat (dilapidated, ramshackle, ruined, rundown, tumble down). (various references)

Russian 

разрушать поколебленный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oštećen (damaged, impaired). (various references)

Spanish

estrellado (radial, starred, starry, stellate, stellated). (various references)

Turkish

sarsılmak (be cut up, be shaken, be shattered, careen, jar, jerk, jolt, judder, quake, rock, shake, shock, sway). (various references)

Welsh

candryll (wrecked), brwyd (blood-stained, braid, embroidering frame, skewer, variegated). (various references)

adflicta, adflicti, adflictique, adflictorum, adflictus, adflictusque, comminuta, comminutus, convulsus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Shattered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hatered, sattered, shatterer, Shetreet, shettered, shitteries, slattered. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: earthset, headrest, restated, retasted, theaters, theatres, threated.

-2 letters: adheres, aethers, dearest, dearths, derates, earthed, estated, estreat, hardest, hardset, hatreds, hatters, headers, headset, hearsed, hearted, heaters, redates, reheats, restate, retaste, sedater, shatter, sheared, started, tethers, tetrads, theater, theatre, thereat, threads, threats, trashed, treated.

-3 letters: adhere, aether, aretes, dasher, daters, dearth, deaths, derate, derats, desert.

+1 letter: threadiest.

+2 letters: letterheads, softhearted, turtleheads.

+3 letters: orchestrated, stepdaughter, stonyhearted, stouthearted, straightedge, straightened, tetrahedrons, thermostated.

+4 letters: dermatophytes, hereditaments, softheartedly, stepdaughters, straightedges, tetrahedrites, thermostatted.

+5 letters: disheartenment, reorchestrated, stadtholderate, stoutheartedly, tetrachlorides.