1. shatter - Noun
2. shatter - Verb
3. Shatter - Proper noun
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.
To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
To scatter about.
To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. Norman Cousins
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. George W. Bush
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. Peter Singer
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. Cassandra Clare
The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all. Germaine Greer
A hammer will shatter glass yet it can forge steel. Russian Proverb