Shatter

Verb

 * 1)  to violently break something into pieces.
 * 2)  to destroy or disable something.
 * 3)  to smash, or break into tiny pieces.
 * 4)  to dispirit or emotionally defeat
 * 5) * 1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36
 * Your death will shatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.
 * 1) * 1992 Rose Gradym "Elvis Cures Teen's Brain Cancer!" Weekly World News, Vol. 13, No. 38 (23 June, 1992), p41
 * A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The news shattered Michele's mother.
 * 1) * 2006 A. W. Maldonado, Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's democratic revolution, p163
 * The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.

Adverbs for Shatter
utterly; devastattngly; ruinously; spiritually; morally; physically; economically; finantially; fundamentally.

Thesaurus
agitate, annihilate, atomize, blast, break, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, burst, clack, clatter, cleave, clitter, confound, confuse, crack, crash, craze, crunch, crush, cut to pieces, dash, daze, decimate, deject, dement, demolish, depress, derange, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, disperse, disrupt, distract, disturb, drive insane, drive mad, fall to pieces, fission, fracture, fragment, frenzy, grind, loot, mad, madden, make mad, make mincemeat of, mince, overcome, overwhelm, pash, perturb, pick to pieces, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, rattle, raze, reduce to rubble, rend, rive, ruin, scatter, send mad, shake up, shard, shattery, shiver, smash, smash up, smatter, snap, splinter, split, squash, squish, stun, stupefy, sunder, take apart, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, throw, torpedo, total, trouble, unbalance, unbuild, undermine, undo, unhinge, unmake, unnerve, unsettle, upset, wrack, wrack up, wreck

Etymology
scateren

Translations

 * Finnish: pirstoa
 * Portuguese:


 * Spanish: astillazar
 * Swedish: krossa


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pirstoa
 * Portuguese:


 * Spanish: astillazar
 * Swedish: krossa, krascha, krasa

Anagrams

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 * threats