Definition of shatter

• v. t. - To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
• v. t. - To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
• v. t. - To scatter about.
• v. i. - To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
• n. - A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.