shatter
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʃæt.ə(ɹ)/
Etymology
In summary
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.
break to pieces
break into pieces
smash into pieces
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