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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishschateren(“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form ofMiddle Englishscateren("to scatter"; seescatter), fromOld Englishscaterian, fromProto-Germanic*skat-(“to smash, scatter”), perhaps ultimatelyimitative. Cognate withDutchschateren(“to burst out laughing”),Low Germanschateren,Albanianshkatërroj(“to destroy, devastate”).Doublet ofscatter.

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Verb

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A lightglobe shatters after it is shot with an airsoft pistol

shatter (third-person singular simple presentshatters,present participleshattering,simple past and past participleshattered)

  1. (transitive) Toviolentlybreak something into pieces.
    The miners used dynamite toshatter rocks.
    a high-pitched voice that couldshatter glass
    The old oak tree has beenshattered by lightning.
  2. (transitive) Todestroy ordisable something.
  3. (intransitive) Tosmash, or break intotiny pieces.
  4. (transitive) Todispirit oremotionallydefeat.
    to beshattered in intellect
    to haveshattered hopes
    to have ashattered constitution
    • 1687, John Norris,Of Seriousness:
      a man of a loose, volatile, andshatter'd humour
    • 1984, Martyn Burke,The commissar's report,, page36:
      Your death willshatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.
    • 1992 June 23, Rose Gradym, “Elvis Cures Teen's Brain Cancer!”, inWeekly World News, volume13, number38, page41:
      A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The newsshattered Michele's mother.
    • 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary,Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson):
      I don't mean toshatter your ego, but this ain't the first time I've had gun pointed at me.
    • 2006, A. W. Maldonado,Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's democratic revolution,, page163:
      The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce wouldshatter her.
  5. (intransitive, agriculture) Ofseeds: to bedispersed uponripening.
    • 1961,Yearbook of Agriculture, page175:
      Harvesting is done much as with alfalfa, but alsike seed is small andshatters if it is not handled carefully.
  6. (obsolete) To scatter about.

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Translations

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to violently break something into pieces
to smash, or break into tiny pieces

Noun

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shatter (countable anduncountable,pluralshatters)

  1. (countable, archaic) Afragment of anything shattered.
    to break a glass intoshatters
    • 1731 (date written; published1745),[Jonathan] Swift,Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […],→OCLC:
      it will fall upon the glass of the sconce, and break it intoshatters
  2. A (pine)needle.
    Synonym:shat(Maryland, Delaware)
    • 1834,The Southern Agriculturist and Register of Rural Affairs: Adapted to the Southern Section of the United States, page421:
      My usual habit is, as soon as I get my wheat trodden out, and my corn secured in the fall, to litter my farm yard (and if my cultivation is far off, I select some warm spot near the field) with leaves and pineshatters, (preferring the former) ...
    • 1859, Samuel W. Cole,The New England Farmer, page277:
      They are preserved in cellars, or out of doors in kilns. The method of fixing them is to raise the ground a few inches, where they are to be placed, and cover with pineshatters to the depth of six inches or more.
    • 2012, Marguerite Henry,Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN, page95:
      Grandpa snapped his fingers. "Consarn it all!" he sputtered. "I plumb forgot the pineshatters. Paul and Maureen, you gather some nice smelly pineshatters from off 'n the floor of the woods. Nothin' makes a better cushion for pony feet as pineshatters ..."
  3. (uncountable, slang) A form ofconcentratedcannabis.

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Translations

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a fragment of anything shattered
a (pine) needle

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