Shamble vs Shatter - What's the difference?
shamble | shatter |
To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
(mining) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
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.
As verbs the difference between shamble and shatter
is that shamble is to walk while shuffling or dragging the feet while shatter is to violently break something into pieces.As nouns the difference between shamble and shatter
is that shamble is one of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level while shatter is a fragment of anything shattered.shamble
English
Verb
(shambl)- I wasn't too impressed with the fellow, when he shambled in unenthusiastically and an hour late.
Synonyms
* shuffleNoun
(en noun)See also
* shamblesshatter
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)