adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
window
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Then Henry saw something else, a wavering light that wobbled and dipped behind one of the shattered windows .
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A small crowd gathered in the street and was watching through the shattered window .
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Darkfall electricity crackled and danced on the rims of the shattered windows .
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The Collector's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill.
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He rose unsteadily and turned back to the shattered windows , breath coming in sobs.
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Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop.
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They turned to look up at the hastily nailed boards that had replaced the shattered windows .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I've had a terrible day at the office and I'm absolutely shattered .
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When he came out of the exam he felt shattered .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A black van reversed through the shattered remains of the main gate and the back doors were thrown open.
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Houses where families have lived for generations are left as blackened, shattered skeletons.
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In that broken place, rocks and shattered boulders lay in a half-circle, ruinous pines growing among them.
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My dream of the religious life is shattered .
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The china money jar on the kitchen mantelpiece that contained their emergency funds lay shattered and empty on the floor.
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The Collector's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill.
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The earth cracked like a shattered windscreen.
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The instruments were shattered , but the controls and engine were functioning except the latter was spewing coolant vapour.