transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃætə(r) ]
( shatters, shattering, shattered)
1.
If something shatters or is shattered , it breaks into a lot of small pieces.
...safety glass that won’t shatter if it’s broken...
The car shattered into a thousand burning pieces in a 200mph crash...
One bullet shattered his skull.
VERB : V , V into n , V n
• shat‧ter‧ing
...the shattering of glass.
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2.
If something shatters your dreams, hopes, or beliefs, it completely destroys them.
A failure would shatter the hopes of many people...
Something like that really shatters your confidence.
VERB : V n , V n
3.
If someone is shattered by an event, it shocks and upsets them very much.
He had been shattered by his son’s death.
...the tragedy which had shattered his life.
VERB : be V-ed , V n
4.
see also shattered , shattering