shattering

English

Verb

shattering

1. present participle and gerund of shatter

Noun

shattering (countable and uncountable, plural shatterings)

1. The act of something that shatters; the shattered material.
   • 1997, J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority, page 226:

     It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings, because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass) […]

Anagrams

• astringeth, straighten