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[ adjective ] broken into sharp pieces

Synonyms

splintered smashed

Examples

"shattered glass" "your eyeglasses are smashed" "the police came in through the splintered door"

Used in print

(Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)

Then the figures which held his attention became a group of shattered trees , standing like the grotesques of a medieval damnation scene .

Related terms

broken

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[ adjective ] ruined or disrupted

Synonyms

tattered

Examples

"our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity" "a tattered remnant of its former strength" "my torn and tattered past"

Related terms

destroyed

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