Skip to content
OneKitly

shattering

verbnounadjectiveattested in dialogue

The act of something that shatters; the shattered material.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of shatterpresent participle and gerund of shatter

noun

  1. 1

    The act of something that shatters; the shattered material.

    It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings, because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass) […]

adjective

  1. 1

    Very tiring; exhausting

Forms

plural
shatterings
comparative
more shattering
superlative
most shattering
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).