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
I am become Death The shatterer of worlds.
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
Oppenheimer, a Sanskrit scholar, was struck a moment later by another passage from the same sacred writing: "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."
From Time Magazine Archive
Judge Wetherell started and peered with a puzzled air at this bold shatterer of established procedure.
From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train
