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shatter:


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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shatter/ˈʃatə(r)/
verb
  • 1 break or cause to break suddenly and violently into pieces.

    ■ damage or destroy.

  • 2 upset greatly.
  • 3 (as adj. shattered) Brit. informal exhausted.
– derivatives
shatterer noun,
shattering adjective,
shatteringly adverb,
shatterproof adjective.
– origin ME: perh. imitative; cf. scatter.



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