verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
break/shatter the silence (= end the silence )
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The sound of a car engine broke the silence.
dash/shatter sb’s hopes (= make what someone wants seem impossible )
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The ending of the talks has dashed any hopes of peace.
destroy/shatter confidence in sb/sth
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A further crisis has destroyed public confidence in the bank.
destroy/shatter sb’s confidence
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When she failed her degree, it shattered her confidence.
glass shatters (= break into small pieces )
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When glass shatters, it leaves jagged edges.
sb's nerves are tattered/frayed/shattered (= they feel very nervous or worried )
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Everyone's nerves were frayed by the end of the week.
shatter the peace literary (= suddenly end it )
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A cry rent the air, shattering the peace.
smash/shatter a record (= beat it easily )
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She smashed the record by a massive 28 seconds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
when
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A home together is a dream that shattered when his job disappeared.
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However, his hopes were shattered when Mr Little left to join Leicester and Darlington were back in trouble.
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But Annie's plans for a restful break were shattered when she discovered the holiday hideaway has a ghost.
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I was shattered when I met you last.
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She was shattered when she was told she couldn't have children.
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But their lives are shattered when a nutty friend goes on a shooting spree, injuring Luna and killing Wren.
■ NOUN
confidence
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The oil crisis alone could not have shattered the confidence which capitalists felt during most of the golden years.
dream
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However a tragic accident shatters Giuseppe's dreams and the Palucci vendetta is spawned.
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He shared an all too familiar story about shattered dreams and growing fear.
earth
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The results were not earth shattering , but people close to the epicenter felt the shocks clearly.
glass
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Shoppers and workers in similar centres in Britain have been showered with glass when panels of toughened glass have suddenly shattered .
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The glass tube shattering in a Thermos bottle?
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When the camera crew arrived three days later, the shelter was covered in graffiti and all its glass had been shattered .
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Of Williams's car there was no sign except the broken red glass of a shattered taillight.
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The iron bar struck the frame and the glass simultaneously, shattering the glass, sending shards spraying into the kitchen.
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Somewhere behind the east wing of the castle glass shattered .
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A series of thuds brought her to her feet. Glass shattered .
hope
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His try shattered Wigan's Cup hopes , last season, as Hull completed a 14-4 Boulevard upset.
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A HumptyDumpty smile, shattered and full of hope .
illusion
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However the motion of the car shatters any illusion that you are travelling through space!
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It would shatter the illusion he was trying to create of having a unique grasp of this new warrant business.
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Let us not shatter that illusion for a week or so.
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Mourning shatters the illusions of self-sufficiency and breaks through the blindness of self-containment.
life
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A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life .
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There are the shattered lives and relationships, across ethnic and even family lines.
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My plan was shattered - my whole life had just been shattered.
peace
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A flick of a switch and the flashing blue lights and two-tone horns shatter the relative peace of the night.
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Stephan said, swimming up, shattering peace and calm with meaningless talk.
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But shortly before this there occurred an event the consequences of which were to shatter the peace of Aquitaine.
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For villagers like the Charlesworth family the motorway, less than a mile from their house, has shattered the peace .
piece
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In the darkness, the big jet skidded into the ground, shattering into pieces on the other side of the ridge.
silence
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A pin dropping in the attic would have shattered the silence .
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Her loud wails shattered the silence of the willow grove.
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Road-block salvo shatters Bucharest's fragile silence .
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Its shrill jangle shattered the intense silence .
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After a good few minutes, I shattered this silence by asking what we should do.
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A dropped pin would shatter the silence in bars during televised lottery draws.
window
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The picture windows shattered , and the bar cracked apart where the bullets went in.
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G., houses trembled and windows shattered .
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Some of the panes in the lower windows had been shattered by flood.
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His old window was shattered and blackened.
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One Waterfoot fisherman had a lucky escape when his car window was shattered .
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The car's windows shattered randomly and pedestrians scattered for the nearest cover.
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Then the bricks flew, and the windows shattered , and the mob moved in.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't try to drive nails into the bricks, they may shatter .
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Our lives were completely shattered by the accident.
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Protesters shattered a glass door and tossed red dye around the entrance.
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Storefront windows shattered and roofs blew off during the hurricane.
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The bullet shattered a bone in her left forearm.
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The explosion shattered office windows 500 metres away.
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The force of the crash shattered the windshield.
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The glass had shattered, but the photograph itself was undamaged.
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The nine-year-old boy was hit by a car and shattered his skull on the pavement.
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Trees fell down and windows shattered during the storm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered, the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz.
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And Nina, crouched in a chair, weak and pale as though any movement might shatter her thinly held composure.
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Sadly, that dream may soon be shattered.
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That morning it was a matter of blinding, shattering, choking importance.