shatters
USSHAT-urz/ˈʃæt.ɚz/UKSHAT-uhz/ˈʃæt.ə(ɹ)z/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of shatter.
The vase shatters the instant it slips from her hands onto the tile.
A sudden shout shatters the quiet of the empty library.
Note
The -s form works with or without an object: a shout shatters the quiet, but a vase simply shatters on the tile. The same spelling carries the figurative uses too, so news that shatters someone leaves them dispirited, and a system that shatters is disabled rather than broken in pieces. Said of seeds, it means they disperse as they ripen. The other present-tense persons take bare shatter.
shatters is a form of shatter
shatter, verb: To break something into pieces with sudden, violent force. Full entry
- Forms
- shattershatters he/she/itshattering -ing formshattered past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- shatter → shatters: add -s
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