Defenition of the word splinter
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Defenition of the word splinter
- A sharp fragment of a larger object, animal spine, or any foreign body that can penetrate into one's body.
- To break up into many small splinters.
- withdraw from an organization or communion
- divide into slivers or splinters
- break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"
- a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it flew into flinders"
- withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"
- a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
- break up into splinters or slivers
Synonyms for the word splinter
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- break away
- break up
- chip
- come apart
- crack
- disintegrate
- fall apart
- flinders
- fragment
- particle
- piece
- secede
- shatter
- sliver
Similar words in the splinter
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- splinter
- splinter's
- splintered
- splintering
- splinters
Hypernyms for the word splinter
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- bit
- break
- break up
- carve up
- chip
- dissever
- divide
- flake
- fleck
- fragment
- fragmentise
- fragmentize
- part
- scrap
- separate
- split
- split up
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