Definition of shatters:
(v) :
(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
(v) :
(transitive) To destroy or disable something.
(v) :
(intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
(v) :
(transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
(v) :
(intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
(v) :
(intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.