smithereen

So obviously according to him, they were not "true" Lebanese or had so much intermixing that they shot his theory to smithereen and did not have enough "muslim" or "crusader" blood in them.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 As'ad 2008

If they were boys that had conducted this brutal assault, beat the smithereen out of a defenseless student, an honor student like this girl, I don ` t think we would be treating them so kindly, Eben Brown.

CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2008 2008

The devastation was -- you know, I mean, I've seen this before, and it hits you again every time -- the way a tornado will destroy a home, just smithereen it, and right next door is a home that's barely scathed.

CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2006 2006

Next, upon due reflotation, up started four hurrigan gales to smithereen his plateglass house-walls and the slate for accounts his keeper was cooking.

Finnegans Wake 2006

"Incidentally, " he might have added, -are you aware that there's no such thing as a smithereen?

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

"Incidentally, " he might have added, -are you aware that there's no such thing as a smithereen?

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

(He had often wondered, what exactly was a smithereen?)

Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

(He had often wondered, what exactly was a smithereen?)

Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

While taking someone down with a bullet seems cold, it's actually more humane that dropping a bomb on the individual that will smithereen all the other individuals in the vicinity.

Antiwar.com Original 2009

I will smithereen the whole damned lot of you before you touch a tusk! "

The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920