VERB (3)

1. break into many pieces;
- Example: "The wine glass shattered"

2. damage or destroy;
- Example: "The news of her husband's death shattered her life"

3. cause to break into many pieces;
- Example: "shatter the plate"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shatter \Shat"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shattered; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Shattering.] [OE. schateren, scateren, to scatter,
   to dash, AS. scateran; cf. D. schateren to crack, to make a
   great noise, OD. schetteren to scatter, to burst, to crack.
   Cf. Scatter.]
   1. To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part
      violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an
      explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam
      shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
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            A monarchy was shattered to pieces, and divided
            amongst revolted subjects.            --Locke.
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   2. To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be
      shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered;
      his hopes were shattered.
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            A man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humor.
                                                  --Norris.
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   3. To scatter about. [Obs.]
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            Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
                                                  --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shatter \Shat"ter\, v. i.
   To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by
   any force applied.
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         Some fragile bodies break but where the force is; some
         shatter and fly in many places.          --Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shatter \Shat"ter\, n.
   A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in
   the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.
   --Swift.
   [1913 Webster] Shatter-brained

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shatter
    v 1: break into many pieces; "The wine glass shattered"
    2: damage or destroy; "The news of her husband's death shattered
       her life"
    3: cause to break into many pieces; "shatter the plate"

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

105 Moby Thesaurus words for "shatter":
   agitate, annihilate, atomize, blast, break, break into pieces,
   break to pieces, break up, burst, clack, clatter, cleave, clitter,
   confound, confuse, crack, crash, craze, crunch, crush,
   cut to pieces, dash, daze, decimate, deject, dement, demolish,
   depress, derange, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disassemble,
   disintegrate, dismantle, disperse, disrupt, distract, disturb,
   drive insane, drive mad, fall to pieces, fission, fracture,
   fragment, frenzy, grind, loot, mad, madden, make mad,
   make mincemeat of, mince, overcome, overwhelm, pash, perturb,
   pick to pieces, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, rattle,
   raze, reduce to rubble, rend, rive, ruin, scatter, send mad,
   shake up, shard, shattery, shiver, smash, smash up, smatter, snap,
   splinter, split, squash, squish, stun, stupefy, sunder, take apart,
   tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, throw,
   torpedo, total, trouble, unbalance, unbuild, undermine, undo,
   unhinge, unmake, unnerve, unsettle, upset, wrack, wrack up,
   wreck