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shat·ter·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. smashing, shatteringadjective

    the act of breaking something into small pieces

  2. 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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  1. 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.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Shattering

    of Shatter

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shattering in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shattering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of shattering in a Sentence

  1. Sundance Morgen:

    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?

  2. Scott Schwartz:

    I think it’s promising, but do I think that at the moment is it going to be an earth-shattering change in practice management? No, i think that in treating kidney cancer as a whole, no, but in treating a certain subset of patients, it can make a big difference.

  3. George Orwell, 1984:

    War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

  4. Steven Soderbergh:

    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.

  5. Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein:

    This, in turn, could expand the conflict beyond Yemen's borders, potentially shattering regional stability.

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