| Shatter 1. (v. t.) 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. 2. (v. t.) To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered. 3. (v. t.) To scatter about. 4. (v. i.) To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied. 5. (n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or solely in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters. Thesaurus Entries 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 |