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present participle of shatter.

shattering

ADJECTIVE

breaking

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collapsing cracking crumbling fracturing smashing splintering splitting tearing

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enduring strong

ADJECTIVE

overwhelming

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amazing astounding crushing devastating mind-boggling staggering stunning vast

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exciting overcoming paralyzing

WEAK

breathtaking eye-opening

ADJECTIVE

piercing

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biting blaring earsplitting fierce high-pitched painful penetrating shrill

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agonizing bitter deafening excruciating freezing keen numbing racking roaring shooting stabbing thin treble

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acute arctic cold exquisite frosty high knifelike loud powerful raw severe sharp stentorian stentorious wintry

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calm kind

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pleasant

WEAK

low soft weak

ADJECTIVE

ruinous

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calamitous cataclysmic catastrophic crippling damaging deadly dire fatal harmful hurtful murderous pernicious

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annihilative baleful baneful deleterious depleting draining exhausting extravagant fateful immoderate impoverishing injurious noxious suicidal unfortunate wasteful withering wrackful

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favorable fortunate harmless healthful helpful kind nice trivial unimportant wholesome

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advantageous assisting beneficial

ADJECTIVE

tumbledown

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annihilative baleful baneful calamitous cataclysmic catastrophic crippling damaging deadly deleterious depleting dilapidated dire draining exhausting extravagant fatal fateful harmful hurtful immoderate impoverishing injurious murderous noxious pernicious ramshackle rundown suicidal unfortunate wasteful withering wrackful

ADJECTIVE

wrecking

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bashing battering breaking ruining smashing splitting

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destructive tearing down

NOUN

clatter

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clack

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ballyhoo bluster clangor hullabaloo pandemonium racket rattle rumpus smashing

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peace

NOUN

destruction

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annihilation carnage elimination eradication extermination extinction loss massacre murder ruin slaughter

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abolition bane crushing dissolving downfall end extinguishing extirpation havoc invalidation liquidation overthrow ravaging ruination sacking slaying subjugation subversion undoing wreckage wrecking

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abolishing assassinating crashing disintegrating disrupting invalidating subverting

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creation

WEAK

building construction improvement reparation restoration

NOUN

liquidation

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elimination eradication extinction slaughter

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abolition bane carnage crushing dissolving downfall end extermination extinguishing extirpation havoc invalidation loss massacre murder obliteration overthrow ravaging ruin ruination sacking slaying subjugation subversion undoing wreckage wrecking

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abolishing assassinating crashing disintegrating disrupting extinguishment invalidating subverting

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accomplishment building construction creation success

NOUN

obliteration

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abolition bane carnage crushing dissolving downfall elimination end eradication extermination extinction extinguishing extirpation havoc invalidation liquidation loss massacre murder overthrow ravaging ruin ruination sacking slaughter slaying subjugation subversion undoing wreckage wrecking

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abolishing assassinating crashing disintegrating disrupting extinguishment invalidating subverting

Antonyms

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accomplishment birth building construction creation success

NOUN

ruination

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abolition annihilation bane carnage crushing devastation dissolving downfall elimination end eradication extermination extinction extinguishing extirpation havoc invalidation liquidation loss massacre murder overthrow ravaging ruin sacking slaughter slaying subjugation subversion undoing wrack wreck wreckage wrecking

WEAK

abolishing assassinating disintegrating disrupting invalidating subverting

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STRONG

accomplishment birth building construction creation success

NOUN

smash

Synonyms

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accident bang bash blast blow boom breakdown breaking breakup burst clap collapse crack crack-up crash debacle destruction disaster downfall failure ruin slam smash-up sock wallop welt whack wham wreck

WEAK

pile-up

Antonyms

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accomplishment building construction creation good fortune miracle rise success win

Example Sentences

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Shattering events lurk in the fog of misunderstanding through which the kid fights to find things that will please her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Known as the Shattering war, the events completely fractured the Lands Between.

From Washington Times • Mar. 23, 2022

Kevin Boyle’s “The Shattering: America in the 1960s” aims to eliminate the boomers’ ownership of the narrative.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2021

This is something else that comes through in the Shattering Lives report.

From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2019

Shattering the light and hopeful: “On the other side of Jordan, there is a peace for the weary, there is a peace for me.”

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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