shatter
Significado
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- To violently break something into pieces.
- To destroy or disable something.
- To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- Of seeds: to be dispersed upon ripening.
- (obsolete) To scatter about.
Frecuencia
Guionizado como
shat‧ter
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈʃæt.ə(ɹ)/
Etimoloxía
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. Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.
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