Shatter
verb
To break suddenly into very small pieces, often making a loud noise.
The glass shattered when it hit the floor.
Often appears as...
- shatter into pieces
- shatter the glass
verb
To completely destroy or ruin something.
Their hopes were shattered when they lost the game.
Often appears as...
- shatter hopes
- shatter dreams
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Disapproving
verb
To shock someone, causing them to feel very upset.
The news of her death shattered him.
Often appears as...
- shatter someone's world
- shatter someone's heart
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To break suddenly into very small pieces, often making a loud noise.
The glass shattered when it hit the floor.
Often appears as...
- shatter into pieces
- shatter the glass
verb
To completely destroy or ruin something.
Their hopes were shattered when they lost the game.
Often appears as...
- shatter hopes
- shatter dreams
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To shock someone, causing them to feel very upset.
The news of her death shattered him.
Often appears as...
- shatter someone's world
- shatter someone's heart
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Destruction
Emphasize that 'shatter' indicates an immediate, almost explosive, breaking apart.
The window shattered with a loud bang.
Pro Tip 2/3Loud Impact
Use 'shatter' when the action results in noise, unlike a silent crack.
The dish shattered into pieces on the tile floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreversible State
Imply that the object cannot be put back together easily, if at all.
The heirloom vase shattered, and its history was lost forever.
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Destruction
Emphasize that 'shatter' indicates an immediate, almost explosive, breaking apart.
The window shattered with a loud bang.
Pro Tip 2/3Loud Impact
Use 'shatter' when the action results in noise, unlike a silent crack.
The dish shattered into pieces on the tile floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreversible State
Imply that the object cannot be put back together easily, if at all.
The heirloom vase shattered, and its history was lost forever.
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Destruction
Emphasize that 'shatter' indicates an immediate, almost explosive, breaking apart.
The window shattered with a loud bang.
Pro Tip 2/3Loud Impact
Use 'shatter' when the action results in noise, unlike a silent crack.
The dish shattered into pieces on the tile floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Irreversible State
Imply that the object cannot be put back together easily, if at all.
The heirloom vase shattered, and its history was lost forever.
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Einstein's miracle year...
regardless of reference frame, while both time and space were relative to the observer. It took Einstein only a few weeks to work out the details and formulate what came to be known as special relativity. The theory not only shattered our previous understanding of reality but would also pave the way for technologies,
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The history of the world...
But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners, they found an unexpected survivor - a black and white cat clinging to a floating plank. For the next several months this cat hunted rats and raised British morale - until a sudden torpedo strike shattered the hull and sank the ship.
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The history of our world...
It contains everything that's in today's universe, so you can imagine, it's busting. And it's expanding at incredible speed. And at first, it's just a blur, but very quickly distinct things begin to appear in that blur. Within the first second, energy itself shatters into distinct forces
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The paradox of choice PIPE...
that's the way I read it at first. The more I thought about it, however, the more I came to the view that this fish knows something. Because the truth of the matter is, if you shatter the fishbowl so that everything is possible, you don't have freedom. You have paralysis.
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How books can open your...
where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you. So because of books, I'm here today, happy, living again with a purpose and a clarity, most of the time. So may books be always with you. Thank you.
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Small-business solutions...
happened to me like leave around four weeks ago it happened I words were said to me but I never thought I would ever hear said to my face by another human being and those words they shattered my heart and at the same time they filled
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The Smallest Bones in...
useless and something like our femur in our thigh because all that weight bearing and twisting it was simply shatter but whereas these little bones are protected deep with inside the skull by being very hard allows them to
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
longest running manifestation of the human phenomenon of compassion in the history of our species. And so I'd like to share a pretty shattering insight that might forever change the way you think about that struggle.
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Shattering the...
not all hacks are meant to help you beat the system some of them are just plain fun to test out in fact I'd like to show you as quick and simple hack to shatter a window that not only is a cool trick
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How to fix a broken...
He broke up with her. As deeply as he cared for Kathy -- and he did -- he simply wasn't in love. Kathy was shattered. Her heart was truly broken, and she now faced yet another recovery.
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Einstein's miracle year...
regardless of reference frame, while both time and space were relative to the observer. It took Einstein only a few weeks to work out the details and formulate what came to be known as special relativity. The theory not only shattered our previous understanding of reality but would also pave the way for technologies,
Video examples
The history of the world...
But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners, they found an unexpected survivor - a black and white cat clinging to a floating plank. For the next several months this cat hunted rats and raised British morale - until a sudden torpedo strike shattered the hull and sank the ship.
Video examples
The history of our world...
It contains everything that's in today's universe, so you can imagine, it's busting. And it's expanding at incredible speed. And at first, it's just a blur, but very quickly distinct things begin to appear in that blur. Within the first second, energy itself shatters into distinct forces
Video examples
The paradox of choice PIPE...
that's the way I read it at first. The more I thought about it, however, the more I came to the view that this fish knows something. Because the truth of the matter is, if you shatter the fishbowl so that everything is possible, you don't have freedom. You have paralysis.
Video examples
How books can open your...
where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you. So because of books, I'm here today, happy, living again with a purpose and a clarity, most of the time. So may books be always with you. Thank you.
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Small-business solutions...
happened to me like leave around four weeks ago it happened I words were said to me but I never thought I would ever hear said to my face by another human being and those words they shattered my heart and at the same time they filled
Video examples
The Smallest Bones in...
useless and something like our femur in our thigh because all that weight bearing and twisting it was simply shatter but whereas these little bones are protected deep with inside the skull by being very hard allows them to
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Gary Haugen: The hidden...
longest running manifestation of the human phenomenon of compassion in the history of our species. And so I'd like to share a pretty shattering insight that might forever change the way you think about that struggle.
Video examples
Shattering the...
not all hacks are meant to help you beat the system some of them are just plain fun to test out in fact I'd like to show you as quick and simple hack to shatter a window that not only is a cool trick
Video examples
How to fix a broken...
He broke up with her. As deeply as he cared for Kathy -- and he did -- he simply wasn't in love. Kathy was shattered. Her heart was truly broken, and she now faced yet another recovery.
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Jennifer Winget
Indian Actress
There's a difference between lust and passionate love. Lust can't just creep in. You'll not find it where true love exists, but it has power enough to shatter the world you've worked so hard to create with love, and sometimes, it suddenly changes how you perceived love to begin with. Love then doesn't live there anymore.
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Lou Doillon
French Actress
My mission is to get on the stage and say, 'Listen, I'm a woman, I'm free, I'm a mother, I'm a lover, I'm a friend; I'm shattered by men most of the time, but I'll keep falling in love with them because it's the most thrilling thing in the world; that's what makes me human.
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Sam Sheppard
American Scientist
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
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Martha Nussbaum
American Philosopher
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
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Michel'le
When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over. They were everything to me and my world was shattered.
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George Orwell
British Author
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
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Nayanthara
Indian Actress
When you have to go away from someone you love or vice-versa, whatever the reason, it really shatters your life.
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Norman Cousins
American Author
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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Faye Dunaway
American Actress
All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.
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Jennifer Winget
Indian Actress
There's a difference between lust and passionate love. Lust can't just creep in. You'll not find it where true love exists, but it has power enough to shatter the world you've worked so hard to create with love, and sometimes, it suddenly changes how you perceived love to begin with. Love then doesn't live there anymore.
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Lou Doillon
French Actress
My mission is to get on the stage and say, 'Listen, I'm a woman, I'm free, I'm a mother, I'm a lover, I'm a friend; I'm shattered by men most of the time, but I'll keep falling in love with them because it's the most thrilling thing in the world; that's what makes me human.
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Sam Sheppard
American Scientist
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
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Martha Nussbaum
American Philosopher
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
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Michel'le
When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over. They were everything to me and my world was shattered.
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George Orwell
British Author
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
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Nayanthara
Indian Actress
When you have to go away from someone you love or vice-versa, whatever the reason, it really shatters your life.
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Norman Cousins
American Author
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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Faye Dunaway
American Actress
All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.
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