splinter
/'splintə/
Definition
Noun:
- A small, thin, sharp fragment of material: A splinter is a tiny, often sharp piece of wood, glass, metal, or other hard material that has broken off from a larger object.
Verb:
- To break into small, sharp fragments: To splinter means for a material to shatter or split into thin, sharp pieces.
- To separate from a larger group or organization: To splinter means for a group to divide or fragment into smaller, often opposing factions.
Examples of Usage
Noun: He carefully removed the wooden splinter from her thumb. The broken window left dangerous glass splinters on the floor.
Verb (to break into fragments): The old, dry wood splintered easily under the hammer. The impact caused the plastic to splinter into tiny pieces.
Verb (to separate from a group): The political party began to splinter over the controversial issue. Several members splintered off to form their own club.
Advanced Usage
- "to splinter off": to separate from a larger group to form a new, distinct faction.
Variants and Related Words
- Splintery (adj): Having the quality of being prone to splintering or full of splinters.
Synonyms
- Noun: Sliver, shard, fragment, chip, flake.
- Verb (to break): Shatter, fragment, shiver, split.
- Verb (to separate): Break away, secede, fragment, divide.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Splinter off: To separate from a larger entity.
Related Idioms
- No common idioms use "splinter" as the core word.
Noun
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a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
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he got a splinter in his finger
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it broke into slivers
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Verb
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break up into splinters or slivers
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The wood splintered
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divide into slivers or splinters
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withdraw from an organization or communion
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After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away
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