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UK
/splˈɪntɐ/
]
[ US /ˈspɫɪntɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈspɫɪntɝ/ ]
NOUN
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a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
he got a splinter in his finger
it broke into slivers
VERB
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break up into splinters or slivers
The wood splintered -
withdraw from an organization or communion
After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away - divide into slivers or splinters
How To Use splinter In A Sentence
- The large bone of the upper arm was splintered to the elbow joint, and the wound bled freely.
- Armed with splinters of steel, two ant-sized men dare the formidable mysteries of a termitary. The Raid on the Termites
- But the splinter of the self that consistently emerges as the common enemy of the true and the good alike is the will, always seeking to overleap its own bounds.
- While not hefty, this double bill offers two sharp little splinters of wit. Times, Sunday Times
- The family dynamic gets splintered when Glen develops a second personality - Glenda - and starts acting out, leading to spectacular patricide.
- You may talk vaguely about driving a coach – and – six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter – bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy. A Christmas Carol
- The name refers to the fact that splinters of cannel can be burnt like a candle.
- While not hefty, this double bill offers two sharp little splinters of wit. Times, Sunday Times
- She wanted to slam the door shut, to hear the satisfying crack of wood against wood, splintering and breaking.
- The alliance of South and West - Georgia planters and Illinois sodbusters - that had dominated American politics since Jefferson's day splintered, then collapsed.