shattered

«shattered» in Mova's school dictionary: broken into many small pieces — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (shattered); past form of shatter (shatter, shatters, shattered, shattering)

meaning for a pupil

1) Shattered means broken into many small pieces. tree →

2) (UK, Australia, NZ informal) Shattered means extremely tired. tree →

3) Shattered means very shocked and upset. tree →

4) Shattered can also mean suddenly ended or destroyed, like a silence. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday British and Australian talk: «I'm shattered» after sports day. In stories: shattered glass, shattered dreams. Phrases: «absolutely shattered», «shattered glass».

examples

• (UK informal) I'm shattered after that long walk. tree →
• Shattered glass lay all over the road. tree →
• She was shattered by the bad news. tree →
• (informal) We were all shattered after the swimming gala. tree →
• Don't touch the shattered pieces of the vase. tree →
• But suddenly the silence was shattered and a cry rang out over the snow. tree →

note

«I'm shattered» (UK, Aus, NZ) = very tired, not broken! In the USA people more often say «exhausted» or «wiped out».

In the corpora

• Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shattered» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.