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# shatter

«shatter» in Mova's school dictionary: **to break suddenly into many small pieces** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (shatter, shatters, shattered, shattering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To shatter is to break suddenly into many small pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#m1)

2) To shatter something like hope or calm is to destroy it suddenly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#m2)

3) To shatter a record is to beat it by a lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#m3)

4) To shatter someone is to make them very upset (or very tired). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In safety: glass shatters — stay away from broken glass and tell an adult. In science, shatterproof materials. In stories: shattered dreams, the silence was shattered. Phrases: «shatter into pieces», «shatter a record», «shatter the silence».

### examples

- The glass shattered on the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#x1)
- A ball shattered the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#x2)
- A scream shattered the silence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#x3)
- She shattered the school record for the 100 metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#x4)
- The news shattered his hopes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#x5)
- Safety glass does not shatter into sharp pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#x6)
- The least shock is sure to shatter me!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Stronger than «break»: many pieces, all at once.

### In the corpora

- [Metals are shiny, they ring when you strike them, and they can be bent and hammered into shape without shattering.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/2/)
- [Thou didst break the sea in pieces by Thy strength; Thou didst shatter the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1266/)
- [Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.87/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shatter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shatter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.