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Smithereens   /smˌɪðərˈinz/   Listen
Smithereens

noun
1.
A collection of small fragments considered as a whole.  "His hopes were dashed to smithereens" , "I wanted to smash him to smithereens" , "The toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens"





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"Smithereens" Quotes from Famous Books



... Uncle has had another outburst. He still consents for her to come down here. Her beautiful ideals have been smashed to smithereens, and the fact that nothing has ever been invented that will stick them together, adds no comfort to the situation. Her disappointment is heart-breaking. I cannot make a move till I get her to myself and have a life-and-death talk with her. ...
— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little
... irresistible! Some woman who will be quite unworthy of him. It's always the case. The block of ice you can not smash with your biggest hammer is broken into smithereens by a needle. That's the peril before Stafford—but let us hope he will prove the exception to the rule and escape. He's safe at present, at ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... harm in humoring this poor devil of an officer who had crashed and lost his wits. Like Luke Evans, shambling up through the line to Dick's side. Dick advanced. At any moment now the concentrated fire of the Emperor's men should blast them all to smithereens. Nothing happened. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various


Words linked to "Smithereens" :   assemblage, collection, accumulation, aggregation


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