Usually means: Break into many small pieces.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shatter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shatter: Merriam-Webster
  3. shatter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shatter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shatter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shatter: Wiktionary
  7. shatter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. shatter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. shatter: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. shatter: Dictionary.com
  11. shatter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. shatter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Shatter (EP), Shatter (cannabis), Shatter (comics), Shatter (digital comic), Shatter (film), Shatter (novel), Shatter (video game), Shatter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Shatter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. shatter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. shatter: Rhymezone
  17. shatter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. shatter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. shatter: FreeDictionary.org
  20. shatter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. shatter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. shatter: Vocabulary.com
  23. Shatter, shatter: Wordnik
  24. shatter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shatter: Legal dictionary

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  1. shatter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shatter: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shatter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Shatter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
verb:  (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
verb:  (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
verb:  (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to be dispersed upon ripening.
verb:  (obsolete) To scatter about.
noun:  (countable, archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.
noun:  A (pine) needle.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) A form of concentrated cannabis.
noun:  A surname.

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