Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a collection of small fragments considered as a whole;
- Example: "Berlin was bombed to smithereens"- Example: "his hopes were dashed to smithereens"- Example: "I wanted to smash him to smithereens"- Example: "the toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Smithereens \Smith`er*eens"\ (sm[i^][th]`[~e]r*[=e]nz"), n. pl.
Fragments; atoms; smithers. [Colloq.] --W. Black.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
smithereens
n 1: a collection of small fragments considered as a whole;
"Berlin was bombed to smithereens"; "his hopes were dashed
to smithereens"; "I wanted to smash him to smithereens";
"the toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens"