shattering

fe’l verb

1. To violently break something into pieces. The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
2. To dispirit or emotionally defeat to be shattered in intellect; to have shattered hopes, or a shattered constitution
3. To destroy or disable something.
4. To smash, or break into tiny pieces.

ot noun

1. The act of something that shatters; the shattered material