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Noun sliver has 2 senses
- splinter, sliver, flinders - a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it flew into flinders"
--1 is a kind of bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap
- paring, sliver, shaving - a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
--2 is a kind of fragment
--2 has particulars: splint
Verb sliver has 3 senses
- sliver, splinter - divide into slivers or splinters
--1 is one way to divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- splinter, sliver - break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"
--2 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- sliver - form into slivers; "sliver wood"
--3 is one way to shape, form
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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