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Bifurcate vs Shatter - What's the difference?

bifurcate | shatter |

As verbs the difference between bifurcate and shatter

is that bifurcate is to divide or fork into two channels or branches while shatter is to violently break something into pieces.

As an adjective bifurcate

is divided or forked into two; bifurcated.

As a noun shatter is

(archaic) a fragment of anything shattered.

bifurcate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
  • Having bifurcations.

    • Verb

    (bifurcat)
  • To divide or fork into two channels or branches.

    • Synonyms

    * branch, fork

    Related terms

    * bifurcation * trifurcate * quadfurcated

    shatter

    English

    (wikipedia shatter)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to violently break something into pieces.
    • The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
    a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass
    The old oak tree has been shattered by lightning.
  • to destroy or disable something.
  • to smash, or break into tiny pieces.
  • to dispirit or emotionally defeat
    • to be shattered''' in intellect; to have '''shattered''' hopes, or a '''shattered constitution
  • * 1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36
    • Your death will shatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.
  • * 1992 Rose Gradym "Elvis Cures Teen's Brain Cancer!" Weekly World News , Vol. 13, No. 38 (23 June, 1992), p41
    • A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The news shattered Michele's mother.
  • * 2006 A. W. Maldonado, Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's democratic revolution, p163
    • The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.
  • * Norris
    • a man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humour
  • (obsolete) To scatter about.
  • * Milton
    • Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.
    • to break a glass into shatters
    (Jonathan Swift)

    Anagrams

    * * English ergative verbs