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Word entry · 7 letters

shatter

Best crossword clue

"Break into pieces"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃætə/Part of speech verbSorted aehrsttStarts with SEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. To break suddenly into many pieces.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
  • a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass
  • The old oak tree has been shattered by lightning.

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