Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shatter
Participle: shattered
Gerund: shattering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | shatter |
| you | shatter |
| he;she;it | shatters |
| we | shatter |
| you | shatter |
| they | shatter |
Perfect
| I | have shattered |
| you | have shattered |
| he;she;it | has shattered |
| we | have shattered |
| you | have shattered |
| they | have shattered |
Past
| I | shattered |
| you | shattered |
| he;she;it | shattered |
| we | shattered |
| you | shattered |
| they | shattered |
Pluperfect
| I | had shattered |
| you | had shattered |
| he;she;it | had shattered |
| we | had shattered |
| you | had shattered |
| they | had shattered |
Future
| I | will shatter |
| you | will shatter |
| he;she;it | will shatter |
| we | will shatter |
| you | will shatter |
| they | will shatter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shattered |
| you | will have shattered |
| he;she;it | will have shattered |
| we | will have shattered |
| you | will have shattered |
| they | will have shattered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shatter |
| you | shatter |
| he;she;it | shatter |
| we | shatter |
| you | shatter |
| they | shatter |
Perfect
| I | have shattered |
| you | have shattered |
| he;she;it | have shattered |
| we | have shattered |
| you | have shattered |
| they | have shattered |
Imperfect
| I | shattered |
| you | shattered |
| he;she;it | shattered |
| we | shattered |
| you | shattered |
| they | shattered |
Pluperfect
| I | had shattered |
| you | had shattered |
| he;she;it | had shattered |
| we | had shattered |
| you | had shattered |
| they | had shattered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shatter |
| you | would shatter |
| he;she;it | would shatter |
| we | would shatter |
| you | would shatter |
| they | would shatter |
Perfect
| I | would have shattered |
| you | would have shattered |
| he;she;it | would have shattered |
| we | would have shattered |
| you | would have shattered |
| they | would have shattered |
Imperative
| you | shatter |
| we | Let's shatter |
| you | shatter |
Verbs conjugated like 'shatter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shatter'
chatter,
hatter,
scatter,
shutter,
slatter,
smatter,
spatter,
swatter,
atter,
batter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 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”), perhaps ultimately imitative.
2. Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter. See: Dutch '
schateren', Low Saxon 'schateren', Albanian '
shkatërroj'.
Verbs referencing "shatter"
Dutch
schateren.
Sample Sentences
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[...] trees rising out of the slimy, spongy ground, hung with long wreaths of funeral black moss, while ever and anon the loathsome form of the mocassin snake might be seen sliding among broken stumps and shattered branches that lay here and there, rotting in the water.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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But the place looked desolate and uncomfortable; some windows stopped up with boards, some with shattered panes, and shutters hanging by a single hinge,—all telling of coarse neglect and discomfort.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] passage-way was dirty and dreary, encumbered with boxes and unsightly litter. The stairs, uncarpeted, seemed winding up, in the gloom, to nobody knew where ! The pale moonlight streamed through a shattered fanlight over the door; the air was unwholesome and chilly, like that of a vault.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The writer has given only a faint shadow, a dim picture, of the anguish and despair that are, at this very moment, riving thousands of hearts, shattering thousands of families, and driving a helpless and sensitive race to frenzy and despair. There are those living who know the mothers whom this accursed traffic has driven to the murder of their [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)