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# shattered

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

«shattered» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Shattered means broken into many small pieces. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#m1)
2. (UK, Australia, NZ informal) Shattered means extremely tired. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#m2)
3. Shattered means very shocked and upset. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#m3)
4. Shattered can also mean suddenly ended or destroyed, like a silence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#m4)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x1)
- Shattered glass lay all over the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x2)
- She was shattered by the bad news. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x3)
- (informal) We were all shattered after the swimming gala. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x4)
- Don't touch the shattered pieces of the vase. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x5)
- But suddenly the silence was shattered and a cry rang out over the snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/#x6)

### Note

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

## In Jewish tradition

Used for people, weapons and the golden bowl of old age, showing that things and lives are broken and cannot stand.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the broken bowl and pitcher in Ecclesiastes as a picture of the body failing in old age and death.

### Examples

- Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it. (Writings JOB.4.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shattered/#x1)
- Before the silver cord is snapped asunder, and the golden bowl is shattered, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel falleth shattered, into the pit; (Writings ECC.12.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shattered/#x2)
- For the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are shattered; for the LORD is a God of recompenses, He will surely requite. (Prophets JER.51.56, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shattered/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «shattered» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shattered/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «shattered» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shattered/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shattered» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/shattered.html) on Mova free.