different between shatter vs disintegrate
shatter
English
Etymology
From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”). Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??æt.?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??æt.?/
- Rhymes: -æt?(?)
- Hyphenation: shat?ter
Verb
shatter (third-person singular simple present shatters, present participle shattering, simple past and past participle shattered)
- (transitive) to violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) to destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive) to smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) to dispirit or emotionally defeat
- 1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36
- Your death will shatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.
- 1992 Rose Gradym "Elvis Cures Teen's Brain Cancer!" Weekly World News, Vol. 13, No. 38 (23 June, 1992), p41
- A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The news shattered Michele's mother.
- 2006 A. W. Maldonado, Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's democratic revolution, p163
- The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.
- 1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36
- (obsolete) To scatter about.
Translations
Noun
shatter (countable and uncountable, plural shatters)
- (countable, archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- it will fall upon the glass of the sconce, and break it into shatters
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- A (pine) needle.
- Synonym: shat (Maryland, Delaware)
- 1834, The Southern Agriculturist and Register of Rural Affairs: Adapted to the Southern Section of the United States, page 421:
- My usual habit is, as soon as I get my wheat trodden out, and my corn secured in the fall, to litter my farm yard (and if my cultivation is far off, I select some warm spot near the field) with leaves and pine shatters, (preferring the former) ...
- 1859, Samuel W. Cole, The New England Farmer, page 277:
- They are preserved in cellars, or out of doors in kilns. The method of fixing them is to raise the ground a few inches, where they are to be placed, and cover with pine shatters to the depth of six inches or more.
- 2012, Marguerite Henry, Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 95:
- Grandpa snapped his fingers. "Consarn it all!" he sputtered. "I plumb forgot the pine shatters. Paul and Maureen, you gather some nice smelly pine shatters from off 'n the floor of the woods. Nothin' makes a better cushion for pony feet as pine shatters ..."
- (uncountable, slang) A form of concentrated cannabis.
Translations
Anagrams
- Hatters, Threats, hatters, stareth, threats
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disintegrate
English
Etymology
Recorded since 1785, dis- +? integrate
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s??nt???e?t/
Verb
disintegrate (third-person singular simple present disintegrates, present participle disintegrating, simple past and past participle disintegrated)
- (transitive) To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
- 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy
- Marlites […] are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
- 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy
- (intransitive) To fall apart, break up into parts.
- (science fiction, transitive) To cause to break up into infinitesimal parts through the use of a disintegrator.
Synonyms
- (transitive, to cause to break into parts) dismember, dissolve
- (intransitive, to break into one's parts) compost, decay, dissolve
Antonyms
- integrate
Derived terms
- disintegration
- disintegrative
- disintegrator
Translations
Anagrams
- reinstigated
Italian
Verb
disintegrate
- second-person plural present indicative of disintegrare
- second-person plural imperative of disintegrare
- feminine plural of disintegrato
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- what disintegrates during prophase
- what disintegrates hair
- what disintegrates in the mesosphere
- what disintegrates styrofoam
- what disintegrates dog poop
- what disintegrates poop
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