Meaning

A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood..

Definitions by Sense

1. A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.
2. A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
3. (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
4. (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
5. (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
6. (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
7. (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
8. (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.

Example Sentences

The tall tree splintered during the storm.

It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.

His third kick splintered the door.

After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and […] abandoned the field to the enemy.

The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.

The unpopular new policies splintered the company.

it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confuséd Pieces of it.

Word Forms

• splinters
• splintering
• splintered

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Use splinter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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