SHATTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shattered mean? 

• SHATTERED (adjective)
  The adjective SHATTERED has 1 sense:

1. ruined or disrupted

  Familiarity information: SHATTERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHATTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ruined or disrupted

Synonyms:

shattered; tattered

Context example:

my torn and tattered past

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 Context examples 

Their simulations show this violent impact, thought to have occurred about 2 billion years ago, completely shattered the parent body.

(ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet Yet in the Solar System, ESO)

For the moment her divinity was shattered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The figure broke into fragments, and Holmes bent eagerly over the shattered remains.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Sir Nigel looked about him at his shattered ranks, and his face flushed with a soldier's pride.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The man’s skull had been shattered by a blow from a poker delivered from behind.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A hush came over us as we stood round these shattered remains and realized the truth of Lord John Roxton's words.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This reception of a shattered fragment of the Temple once called Man—if I may be permitted so to express myself—bespeaks a heart that is an honour to our common nature.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In wandering round the shattered walls and through the devastated interior, I gathered evidence that the calamity was not of late occurrence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)