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  • noun A person who, or thing that shatters something

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Examples

  • There are easier tasks than those of the illusion-shatterer.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • You are created Shiva, the destroyer, death, the shatterer of worlds, the dead night tiger made whole by the Master of Sinanju.

    ...And Nail 2010

  • He should be the breaker of icons and the shatterer of illusions.

    CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2009 2009

  • At precisely 5: 30 AM on the 16th of July 1945 in a place in the desert of New Mexico, named Journey of the Dead Man or Jornada del Muerto, that flash of the Trinity Test, caused Dr. Robert Oppenheimer to recite the famous verse from the Bhagavad-Gita, "I am death, the shatterer of worlds."

    Christie Brinkley: Nuclear Proliferation: A Mother's Legacy 2009

  • Though an avant-gardist, he was not a form-shatterer.

    Of Hopelessness And Hope 2008

  • That last line is easily recognizable from another Indian epic, the Bhagavad Gita — "I am become death: the shatterer of worlds."

    Hobbes in the Himalayas 2005

  • That last line is easily recognizable from another Indian epic, the Bhagavad Gita — "I am become death: the shatterer of worlds."

    Hobbes in the Himalayas 2005

  • There is going to have to be some heck of a blockbuster brain-shatterer coming out in the last half of 2006 if they want to capture the throne of "Most Fun Comic of 2006" away from Solo #11.

    SOLO #5 DC Comics, 2006 David Campbell 2006

  • Oppenheimer, conflicted, famously recalled a line from the Bhagavad Gita, I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • Oppenheimer, conflicted, famously recalled a line from the Bhagavad Gita, I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

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