shatter

verb · nounB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

shatters

V_ing/Gerund

shattering

V_ed/pp

shattered

1.
(transitive)To violently break something into pieces.
The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass
The old oak tree has been shattered by lightning.
2.
(transitive)To destroy or disable something.
3.
(intransitive)To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
4.
(transitive)To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
to be shattered in intellect
to have shattered hopes
to have a shattered constitution
5.
(intransitive)(intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
6.
(obsolete, transitive)To scatter about.
7.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

shatters

1.
(archaic, countable)A fragment of anything shattered.
to break a glass into shatters
2.
(countable, uncountable)A (pine) needle.
Đồng nghĩa: shat
3.
(countable, uncountable)A scattering, a smattering; a quantity of something scattered, like a sprinkling of seeds or a shower of rain.
4.
(slang, uncountable)A form of concentrated cannabis.

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Đồng nghĩa

shat shiver

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English schateren (to scatter, dash), an assibilated form of scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (to smash, scatter), perhaps ultimately.