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Definitions for Shattering
shat·ter·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
smashing, shatteringadjective
the act of breaking something into small pieces
shatteringadjective
seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering
"shattering rain striking the windowpanes"; "the shattering tones of the enormous carillon"; "the shattering peal of artillery"
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shattering
Shattering generally means breaking or dividing into multiple fragments, often violently or suddenly. It can be used literally to describe the physical breaking of a solid object, and figuratively to describe the disruption or destruction of abstract concepts, such as dreams, plans, or emotional states.
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Shattering
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Shattering in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Shattering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of Shattering in a Sentence
They don't have titles. Before people saw the movie, there were these weird press releases focusing on the unreleased music. And it's like: It's a movie. We're not going to stop it and play a song for four minutes, but nobody in Kurt's life — not his management, wife, bandmates — had ever heard his Beatles thing [a snippet of 'And I Love Her']. I found it on a random tape. It's a Paul [McCartney] song. How's that for shattering the myth?
The current crisis means change is afoot, a record-shattering increase in jobless claims suggests that transfer payments will likely be the only facet of income rising in the months ahead.
CONOR MCGREGOR SEEN IN NEW VIDEO SHATTERING WINDOW AMID BLOODY BUS FIGHT Curtis Foster, the coach of the Lady Warriors, also shared his account of the incident with the outlet. She told him she wasn't going anywhere. Then, the gentleman came from behind, the other coach came over and started stomping on him, so at that time, my assistant coach helped me grab one of the guys to get them off him.
So it wasn't like we assumed it would, but if there was even a possibility that it would happen, then you have to account for that. That would have been such a shattering moment, that to come back after that would have been just impossible.
The shooter, Floyd Corkins, came into our building armed with a 9 mm pistol, two ammunition clips of 15 rounds in his front pocket, the rounds in the gun, and a box of 50 additional rounds, he also had 15 individually wrapped Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He was not puffing things up when he told the investigators that he intended ‘to kill as many people as [he] could.’ He shot our building manager, Leo Johnson, shattering the major bones of his left arm. Even after taking a bullet, Leo heroically tackled the shooter putting a stop to what would have been a mass murder. Corkins was later convicted of domestic terrorism in Washington, D.C.
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