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Definition of Shatter
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Shatter
To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning. To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered. To scatter about. To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied. A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters. Related Definitions:
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Shatter Quotations
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. George W. Bush 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. George Santayana In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. Sun Tzu By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from. Gerard Butler I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image. Michael York |
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Shatter Translations
shatter in Danish is knuse shatter in Dutch is intrappen, vermorzelen, verbrijzelen shatter in Finnish is murskata shatter in French is briser, fracassons, fracassent, fracassez shatter in Latin is rumpo, frango shatter in Portuguese is fragmento shatter in Swedish is splittra, splittras |
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