Dictionary Entry
splinter
splinter is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
- 2noun
To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
- 3intransitive verb
To become split into long pieces.
- 4noun
A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.
- 5noun
a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
"he got a splinter in his finger"
"it broke into slivers"
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- 6verb
break up into splinters or slivers
"The wood splintered"
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- 7verb
divide into slivers or splinters
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- 8verb
withdraw from an organization or communion
"After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"
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