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Collocations for shatter - verb

1. break into very small pieces

ADVERB

completely

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PREPOSITION

into
The bottle shattered into little shards of glass.

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PHRASES

shatter (sth) into pieces
The mirror shattered into a thousand pieces.

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2. destroy sth completely

ADVERB

completely
an event that completely shattered her life
abruptly, instantly, suddenly
The moment was abruptly shattered by the sound of Mia's loud voice.
brutally, rudely

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Shatter is used with these nouns as the subject:
glass, window, windscreen

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Shatter is used with these nouns as the object:
belief, bone, calm, confidence, consensus, dream, glass, hope, illusion, myth, pane, peace, preconception, quiet, record, silence, skull, stereotype, taboo, unity, vase, window, windscreen

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