shatter
verb (used with object)
to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
shatterer
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a word derived from
shatter.
Example Sentences
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Kuehl may have a long and distinguished record as an activist, attorney, lawmaker, performer and ceiling shatterer, but that’s hardly the point.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 10, 2018
He sees himself as a revolutionary shatterer of the status quo who would insist on pushing ahead through any fog.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oppenheimer recalls that two lines of the Bhagavad-Gita flashed through his mind: "I am become death, the shatterer of worlds."
From Time Magazine Archive
What came to the mind of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was a fragment from the Bhagavad-Gita: "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."
From Time Magazine Archive
I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at those forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. by Guy de Maupassant
