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# shattered

«shattered» in Mova's school dictionary: **broken into many small pieces** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (shattered); past form of shatter (shatter, shatters, shattered, shattering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Shattered means broken into many small pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#m1)

2) (UK, Australia, NZ informal) Shattered means extremely tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#m2)

3) Shattered means very shocked and upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#m3)

4) Shattered can also mean suddenly ended or destroyed, like a silence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday British and Australian talk: «I'm shattered» after sports day. In stories: shattered glass, shattered dreams. Phrases: «absolutely shattered», «shattered glass».

### examples

- (UK informal) I'm shattered after that long walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x1)
- Shattered glass lay all over the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x2)
- She was shattered by the bad news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x3)
- (informal) We were all shattered after the swimming gala. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x4)
- Don't touch the shattered pieces of the vase. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x5)
- But suddenly the silence was shattered and a cry rang out over the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x6)

### note

«I'm shattered» (UK, Aus, NZ) = very tired, not broken! In the USA people more often say «exhausted» or «wiped out».

### In the corpora

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