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SHATTERED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ruined or disrupted

Example:

my torn and tattered past

Synonyms:

shattered; tattered

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb shatter

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 Context examples: 

This series of events can be likened to the meteor blast that shattered windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia, last year.

(NASA Mars weathercam helps find big new crater, NASA)

This scenario is supported by Voyager 2 images from 1989 that show a large impact crater on Proteus, almost large enough to have shattered the moon.

(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)

I have lived a living death which has left me an old and shattered man when I am but in my fortieth year.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Since much of the material being flung out from the shattered star has been heated by shock waves − similar to sonic booms from supersonic planes − passing through it, the remnant glows strongly in X-ray light.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

Away with it! and opening the heavy window with one wrench of his terrible hand, he flung out the glass, which was shattered into a thousand pieces on the stones of the courtyard far below.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"There was an Arctic Report Card released last week. It said while 2017 saw fewer records shattered than in 2016, the Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region it was decades ago.

(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)

And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My father still desired to delay our departure, fearful that I could not sustain the fatigues of a journey, for I was a shattered wreck—the shadow of a human being.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The other end was secured to the rope, so that in a minute a good strong cord was dangling from the only sound side of the blazing and shattered tower.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He has taken to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his nervous system is shattered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)