in smithereens

ADJECTIVE

damaged

Synonyms

STRONGEST

flawed impaired injured run-down

STRONG

bent blemished busted dinged down flubbed gone hurt marred shot snafued spoiled sunk totaled

WEAK

beat-up fouled-up glitched imperfect in need of repair in poor condition kaput loused up messed-up mucked up no-go on the blink on the fritz out of action out of kilter out of whack screwed-up unsound

Antonyms

STRONGEST

healthy

WEAK

OK fixed mended perfect repaired unbroken undamaged working

Example Sentences

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It’s even harder, though, to recover from a relationship you have put your heart into only to have it returned to you in smithereens.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2016

If words were shells and epithets bombs, the Armies of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin would both be in smithereens.

From Time Magazine Archive

The switchboard was in smithereens, but with the help of portable apparatus they got generators going.

From Time Magazine Archive

I mean, my heart was already pretty much in smithereens.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

He took it–and it dropped out of his hand on to the plate with a crash that laid it in smithereens....

From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

in smithereens

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