shattered

/ˈʃætəd//ˈʃætɚd/
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Word Statistics

Difficulty LevelAdvanced

Academic vocabulary

Word FrequencyCommon

Regularly used in writing and speech

Syllables2

Moderate complexity

Analysis:

  • Academic vocabulary
verb

1. To violently break something into pieces.

"The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks."

2. To destroy or disable something.

3. To smash, or break into tiny pieces.

4. To dispirit or emotionally defeat

"to be shattered in intellect; to have shattered hopes, or a shattered constitution"

5. To scatter about.

adjective

1. Physically broken into pieces

2. Emotionally defeated or dispirited

3. Extremely tired or exhausted

"I stayed up all night working, and now I'm completely shattered."

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