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

1. noun. To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
2. noun. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
3. intransitive verb. To become split into long pieces.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal

   "he got a splinter in his finger"

   "it broke into slivers"

   Synonyms: sliver

6. verb. break up into splinters or slivers

   "The wood splintered"

   Synonyms: sliver

7. verb. divide into slivers or splinters

   Synonyms: sliver

8. verb. withdraw from an organization or communion

   "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"

   Synonyms: secede

Synonyms

sliver, secede

Common word forms

splinters, splintered, splintering, splinterize, splinterless

Words from these letters

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