shattering

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shattering

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of shatter

noun shatterings

  1. countable, uncountable The act of something that shatters; the shattered material. It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings, because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass) […]

adjective more shattering · most shattering

  1. Very tiring; exhausting

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: smashing, loud, rupture, fragmentation, breaking, burst, disintegration, exploding, blowout, outbreak, breakdown, breakup, obliteration, overturning, break-up, annihilation

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Españolaplastante, demoledor, devastador

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@misc{shattering_2026,
  title = {shattering},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shattering},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}