sliver

sliver is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
2. noun. A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
3. noun. A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
4. noun. Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
5. noun. a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something

   Synonyms: paring, shaving

6. noun. a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal

   "he got a splinter in his finger"

   "it broke into slivers"

   Synonyms: splinter

7. verb. form into slivers

   "sliver wood"

8. verb. break up into splinters or slivers

   "The wood splintered"

   Synonyms: splinter

9. verb. divide into slivers or splinters

   Synonyms: splinter

Synonyms

paring, shaving, splinter

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sliver:

ervils, livers, livres, silver

Common word forms

slivers, slivered, sliverer, slivering

Words from these letters

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