As verbs the difference between spatters and shatters
is that
spatters is third-person singular of spatter while
shatters is third-person singular of shatter.
spatters English
Verb
(head)
(spatter)
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spatter English
Verb
( en verb)
To splash with small droplets.
- When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- to spatter blood
- (Alexander Pope)
(figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.
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shatters English
Verb
(head)
(shatter)
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)
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