-shattering

shatter | American Dictionary

shatter
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈʃæt̬·ər/
to break suddenly or cause something to break suddenly into small pieces:
[ T ]The earthquake shattered all the windows in the building.
fig.to end or damage:
[ T ]The defeat shattered her confidence.

Examples of shatter

shatter
The renewed fighting has shattered years of negotiations, but more importantly, robbed its citizens of trusting the other side and of the peace process.
The resulting picture is a nuanced one, one in which over-easy generalizations about hegemony and resistance, imperialism and cooptation, are shattered by carefully documented examples.
The belief on which her worldview had rested - personal and collective betterment through work - is shattered.
First, the input information is shattered to pieces as it is spread out over thousands or even millions of receptor cells.
Before the jeep managed to get away, its windshield was shattered and its backcover torn.
Only by ' shattering' this ' common image' of the singer-songwriter can she rise up the ranks of guitarists.
The power basis of a regime is normally shattered by defeat in war.
Examinations of surviving family genealogies and census-type materials have offered further insights into past demographic regimes and shattered some long-established beliefs.
The two lines meet on an outcrop of metachert, which has been blasted and strongly shattered.
Eventually, it is reduced to "shattered" masonry (40), lying between the paws of the implacable sphinx.
Through its sobering effect, he said, past illusions would be shattered and negative tendencies and norms would undergo a change toward a better society.
Accordingly, a traumatised person is never the same, since their assumptive world has been shattered.
The war shattered any illusion that they would make a difference.
Hargreaves' informants spoke of their experiences as disturbing, shattering even.
Gone was the semblance of party unity, shattered into overlapping currents.
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