shatter

Significado (inglés)

1. To violently break something into pieces.
2. To destroy or disable something.
3. To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
4. To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
5. Of seeds: to be dispersed upon ripening.
6. (obsolete) To scatter about.

smash

break

break into pieces

break to pieces

smash into pieces

renege on

break apart

break asunder

break in pieces

renegue on

smash to pieces

snap off

break into fragments

batter down

Frecuencia

Guionizado como

shat‧ter

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈʃæt.ə(ɹ)/

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.