Shatter vs Disintegrate - What's the difference?
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to violently break something into pieces.
to destroy or disable something.
to smash, or break into tiny pieces.
to dispirit or emotionally defeat
* 1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36
* 1992 Rose Gradym "Elvis Cures Teen's Brain Cancer!" Weekly World News , Vol. 13, No. 38 (23 June, 1992), p41
* 2006 A. W. Maldonado, Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's democratic revolution, p163
* Norris
(obsolete) To scatter about.
* Milton
(archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.
To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
* Kirwan
To fall apart, break up into parts.
In transitive terms the difference between shatter and disintegrate
is that shatter is to dispirit or emotionally defeat while disintegrate is to undo the integrity of, break into parts.In intransitive terms the difference between shatter and disintegrate
is that shatter is to smash, or break into tiny pieces while disintegrate is to fall apart, break up into parts.As a noun shatter
is a fragment of anything shattered.shatter
English
(wikipedia shatter)Verb
(en verb)- 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 be shattered''' in intellect; to have '''shattered''' hopes, or a '''shattered constitution
- Your death will shatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.
- A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The news shattered Michele's mother.
- The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.
- a man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humour
- Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
Noun
(en noun)- to break a glass into shatters
- (Jonathan Swift)
Anagrams
* * English ergative verbsdisintegrate
English
Verb
(disintegrat)- Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.