adjective

• 1Very upset.

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  • ‘he was said to be absolutely shattered after losing his job’

  Synonyms

  worried, upset, distressed, fraught, devastated, shattered

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• 2British informal Exhausted.

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  • ‘I usually feel too shattered to do more than crawl into bed’
  • ‘Anyway, nothing happening, France attacking but everyone's shattered apart from Ribery.’
  • ‘At least I get to see my nieces for a few hours near to Christmas this way… we might be shattered after the journey but it will be happy shattered.’

  Synonyms

  exhausted, tired out, worn out, weary, dog-tired, bone-tired, bone-weary, ready to drop, on one's last legs, asleep on one's feet, drained, fatigued, enervated, debilitated, spent

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