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• n  the act of breaking something into small pieces
• v  break into many pieces
• v  damage or destroy
• v  cause to break into many pieces
• s  seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering
  shattering rain striking the windowpanes
  the shattering tones of the enormous carillon
  the shattering peal of artillery

• Today parts of Tirana, a city of about 650,000 people, resemble a Mondrian painting, the blues, yellows and pinks a shattering break from Albanias 45-year grim isolation under a .
• In a voice that often quavered, Kissinger declared: "That Nelson Rockefeller is dead is both shattering and nearly inconceivable.
• Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run, shattering Hank Aaron's long-standing record.

• smashing
• shatter

News & Articles

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• The rise of the American antihero
  Analysis: Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning are shattering the traditional concepts of patriotism, loyalty, even legality. A new TV series can’t be far behind.
  June 12, 2013 - GlobalPost
• Report: Mom shattered baby's arm, cops say
  A 24-year-old woman in Volusia County is accused of shattering the bones in her baby's arm, possibly by violently grabbing or dragging the 1-year-old by the arm, wesh.com is reporting.        
  June 11, 2013 - Orlando Sentinel
• Mike Tyson dances up a storm at the Tony Awards. Yes, this is real.
  Perhaps LeBron James' world-shattering block on Tiago Splitter in Game 2 of the NBA Finals fundamentally altered the nature of reality. That's the only explanation we can come up with for the fact that Iron Mike Tyson, once the most … Continue reading ?
  June 10, 2013 - Boxing via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• Joe Girardi in USA Today
  I'll say a few things before the game. Nothing earth-shattering. He's been through hostile environments before. ...... So this will probably seem somewhat par for the course,Girardi said. "It's still different overtime you go through a new...
• Mike Tomlin in USA Today
  Lawrence has got to make up some ground, it's not earth shattering, it's just the reality of it,Tomlin said. "He's got time to get better."
• Sir Clive Woodward in Reuters.uk
  It is personally shattering for me to say this, but winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team,Clive Woodward said in The Sunday Times.