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Shattered   /ʃˈætərd/   Listen
Shattered

adjective
1.
Ruined or disrupted.  Synonym: tattered.  "A tattered remnant of its former strength" , "My torn and tattered past"


Shatter

verb
(past & past part. shattered; pres. part. shattering)
1.
Break into many pieces.
2.
Damage or destroy.
3.
Cause to break into many pieces.



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"Shattered" Quotes from Famous Books



... was as radical as that of the method of crushing the ore. Existing machinery for this purpose had been designed on the basis of mining methods then in vogue, by which the rock was thoroughly shattered by means of high explosives and reduced to pieces of one hundred pounds or less. These pieces were then crushed by power directly applied. If a concentrating mill, planned to treat five or six thousand ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... his pillows thoughtfully sucking the new pencil given him by his mate in the next bed. Propped against the cradle that covered his shattered knee was a pad, to which a sheet of paper had been fixed, and he was about to write a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, October 31, 1917 • Various
... a difficult process, during which time habits, vices, and superstitions cling to a man's soul with a tenacity that would cause us to abandon all hope, were it not that monuments of grace abound to prove that the power and dominion of sin has been shattered. ...
— The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's - The Story of the Work in Hwochow • A. Mildred Cable
... kind of blow he felt in his rage that he would have liked to direct at John Grange's head, but as in his unreasonable jealous spite it was only a good-sized earthenware pot, the result was very unsatisfactory, for the flower was broken, the pot shattered, and a couple of red spots appeared on Daniel Barnett's knuckles, which began ...
— A Life's Eclipse • George Manville Fenn
... few days, Mr. Vernor recovered sufficiently to remove from Barstone to a small farm which he possessed in the north, where he lingered for some months, shattered alike in health and spirits. He steadily refused to see either Clara or myself, or to accept the slightest kindness at our hands; but we have since had reason to believe, that in this he was actuated by a feeling of compunction, rather than of animosity. Nothing is so galling to a proud spirit, ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley


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