smithereen

[US]/ˌsmiðə'ri:n/

Translation

vt. smash into pieces, explode into fragments
Word Forms

Phrases & Collocations

burst into smithereens

blown to smithereens

shattered into smithereens

Real-world Examples

He should have been blasted into smithereens.

Source: 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

It's gonna be smashed to smithereens.

Source: The History Channel documentary "Cosmos"

Could we use something like it to blow a volcano to smithereens?

Source: If there is a if.

Now you want to blow it all to smithereens!

Source: Downton Abbey Season 3

I'm gonna blow your record to smithereens.

Source: True Blood Season 3

I guess we're gonna blow the Ruskies to smithereens.

Source: Stranger Things

Blown to smithereens, I reconstituted myself as a Mexican conscript soldier, leaving the legacy of Davy Crockett to historians.

Source: Friday Flash Fiction - 100-word Micro Fiction

Hearing of his arrival, a reporter dressed in a smock interviewed him in the smithy, standing among smithereens.

Source: Pan Pan

Waking up not knowing who I am, trying to wrap my head around unthinkable news, my world smashed to smithereens.

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) June 2020 Collection

Ove's first instinct is to run after them and tear that German sheet-metal monster, inclusive of imbeciles, weeds, growling mutts, and wave-shaped headlights, to smithereens.

Source: A man named Ove decides to die.

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