shattering

1. 1.

   the act of breaking something into small pieces

   Synonymssmashing

   Broaderbreakage

1. 1.

   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”

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Other forms of shattering

plural

shatterings·

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.

Questions about shattering

What does shattering mean?

shattering means "the act of breaking something into small pieces". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shattering?

shattering has 3 syllables: shat-te-ring. The stress falls on "shat". In IPA it is /ˈʃætɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for shattering?

Close synonyms include smashing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shattering a common word?

shattering is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.