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    splinter
    /ˈsplɪntə/

    noun

    • 1. a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, glass, or similar material broken off from a larger piece: "a splinter of ice"

    verb

    • 1. break or cause to break into small sharp fragments: "the soap box splintered"

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  3. A splinter is a small, sharp, broken piece of wood, glass, plastic, or similar material. It can also be a verb meaning to break into small, sharp pieces. See more meanings, examples, synonyms, and translations of splinter.

  4. Learn the noun and verb meanings of splinter, a word that can refer to a thin piece of wood or metal, or a group or faction broken away from a parent body. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related phrases of splinter.

  5. A splinter is a thin, sharp piece of wood, glass, or other hard substance, which has broken off from a larger piece. It can also mean to break into thin, sharp pieces, or to split into groups with divergent views.

  6. A splinter is a narrow, pointed sliver that breaks off something larger. If you walk barefoot on a wooden floor, dock, or boardwalk, you might get a splinter of wood in your foot. Ouch!

  7. a very small sharp piece of wood, glass, metal, etc, characteristically long and thin, broken off from a whole. a metal fragment, from the container of a shell, bomb, etc, thrown out during an explosion.

  8. A splinter is a small, sharp piece of wood, glass, metal, etc, broken off from a main body. It can also mean to break into pieces, to withdraw from a group, or to form a new party.

  9. Splinter is a verb that means to break something into small, sharp pieces, or to divide a group into smaller groups. Learn how to use it with pictures, pronunciation, synonyms and more.