shatter

SHAT'TER, v.t.

1. To braek at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, rend or part by violence into fragments; as, explosion shatters a rock or bomb; lightning shatters the sturdy oak; steam shatters a boiler; a monarchy is shattered by revolt.

2. To rend; to crack; to split; to rive into splinters.

3. To dissapate; to make incapable of close and continued application; as a man of shattered humor.

4. To disorder; to derange; to render delirious; as, to shatter teh brain, the man seems to be shattered in his intellect.

SHAT'TER, v.i. To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.

Some shatter and fly in many places. Bacon.