0 to break in small pieces, usually suddenly or forcefully -- vỡ tan
Gone was the semblance of party unity, shattered into overlapping currents.
Hargreaves' informants spoke of their experiences as disturbing, shattering even.
The war shattered any illusion that they would make a difference.
Accordingly, a traumatised person is never the same, since their assumptive world has been shattered.
Through its sobering effect, he said, past illusions would be shattered and negative tendencies and norms would undergo a change toward a better society.
Eventually, it is reduced to "shattered" masonry (40), lying between the paws of the implacable sphinx.
The two lines meet on an outcrop of metachert, which has been blasted and strongly shattered.
Examinations of surviving family genealogies and census-type materials have offered further insights into past demographic regimes and shattered some long-established beliefs.
