shatter
Example Sentences
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The integrity of the armed forces has been shattered.
Bundy and the mayor led a driving tour of the shattered coastline, stopping at one property where the destruction of a home revealed a sea wall below with a pre-existing sinkhole.
Those conversations shattered the "prejudice" she carried, an ignorance that "reduces a person entirely to their wound".
From BBC
Melamine may not be the most elegant material, but I was grateful for the fact that, no matter how violently a 1-year-old dropped that plate, it would bounce and not shatter.
The sequel shattered domestic records, grossing more than $1.8 billion in China alone, according to Box Office Mojo — a figure that by itself placed it at or near the top of the global box office.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
