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say it: SHAT-ur-ing
shattering is a noun and adjective meaning "the act of breaking something into small pieces". It is pronounced /ˈʃætɚɪŋ/ — SHAT-ur-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering
“shattering rain striking the windowpanes”
“the shattering tones of the enormous carillon”
“the shattering peal of artillery”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shattering come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.