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Noun splinter has 1 sense
- 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
Verb splinter has 3 senses
- secede, splinter, break away - withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"
--1 is one way to separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
Sample sentence:
The girls splinter the wooden sticks
- sliver, splinter - divide into slivers or splinters
--2 is one way to divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
Sample sentence:
The wooden sticks splinter
- splinter, sliver - break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"
--3 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
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