SMITHEREENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smithereens mean? 

• SMITHEREENS (noun)
  The noun SMITHEREENS has 1 sense:

1. a collection of small fragments considered as a whole

  Familiarity information: SMITHEREENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMITHEREENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection of small fragments considered as a whole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens

Hypernyms ("smithereens" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

 Context examples 

We think two big asteroids crashed into each other, creating a huge cloud of grains the size of very fine sand, which are now smashing themselves into smithereens and slowly leaking away from the star, said lead author and graduate student Huan Meng of the University of Arizona, Tucson.

(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)