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flake
A thin piece or layer split off or peeled off from anything; chip
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  1. A thin piece or layer split off or peeled off from anything; chip
  2. A relatively thin, sharp-edged stone fragment removed from a core or from another flake by striking or prying, serving as a tool or blade itself or as a blank for making other tools.
  3. A flat thin piece or layer; a chip.
wood
(Golf) Any of a set of numbered clubs, originally with wooden heads, having various lofts: the number 1 wood is usually called a driver; the number 2 wood, number 3 wood, and number 4 wood are used for long, medium, and short fairway shots, respectively
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  1. (Golf) Any of a set of numbered clubs, originally with wooden heads, having various lofts: the number 1 wood is usually called a driver; the number 2 wood, number 3 wood, and number 4 wood are used for long, medium, and short fairway shots, respectively
  2. (--- Sports) Any of a series of golf clubs used to hit long shots, having a bulbous head made of wood, metal, or graphite, and numbered one to five in order of increasing loft.
  3. Trees cut and prepared for use in making things; lumber or timber
shatter
To break into pieces; smash or burst:
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  1. To break into pieces; smash or burst:
  2. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow.
  3. To break or burst into pieces; smash
break
To cause to give up a habit:
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  1. To cause to give up a habit:
  2. To exchange for smaller monetary units:
  3. To fail to conform to; violate:
sliver
A small narrow piece, portion, or plot:
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  1. A small narrow piece, portion, or plot:
  2. A thin, sharp piece that has been cut, split, or broken off something; splinter
  3. A slender piece cut, split, or broken off; a splinter:
shiver
An attack of shivering. Used with the.
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  1. An attack of shivering. Used with the.
  2. A fragment or splinter.
  3. A fragment or splinter of something broken, as glass
fragment
(Grammar) A sentence fragment.
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  1. (Grammar) A sentence fragment.
  2. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit:
  3. A part broken away from a whole; broken piece
piece
Any single thing, amount, specimen, example, etc.
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  1. Any single thing, amount, specimen, example, etc.
  2. An object that is one member of a group or class:
  3. A coin:
chip
A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip:
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  1. A thin, usually fried slice of food, especially a potato chip:
  2. Wood, palm leaf, or straw split and woven into bonnets, hats, etc.
  3. A small broken or cut off piece, as of wood, stone, or glass.
shiver
To cause (a sail) to flutter by sailing too close to the wind.
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  1. To cause (a sail) to flutter by sailing too close to the wind.
  2. To cause to break suddenly into fragments or splinters.
  3. To break into fragments or splinters; shatter.
split
To separate, cut, or divide into two or more parts; cause to separate along the grain or length; break into layers
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  1. To separate, cut, or divide into two or more parts; cause to separate along the grain or length; break into layers
  2. To separate or break up through failure to agree, etc.
  3. To divide and share:
fracture
A break or rupture in bone tissue. &diamf3; A comminuted fracture results in more than two fragments. &diamf3; Although most fractures are caused by a direct blow or sudden, twisting force, stress fractures result from repetitive physical activity. &diamf3; In an incomplete fracture , the fracture line does not completely traverse the bone.
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  1. A break or rupture in bone tissue. &diamf3; A comminuted fracture results in more than two fragments. &diamf3; Although most fractures are caused by a direct blow or sudden, twisting force, stress fractures result from repetitive physical activity. &diamf3; In an incomplete fracture , the fracture line does not completely traverse the bone.
  2. To cause to break:
  3. To break up; disintegrate
rift
To burst open; split
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  1. To burst open; split
  2. A narrow break, crack, or other opening in a rock, usually made by cracking or splitting.
  3. To cause to split open or break.
rive
To break or dismay (the heart, spirit, etc.)
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  1. To break or dismay (the heart, spirit, etc.)
  2. To break or distress (the spirit, for example).
  3. To break into pieces, as by a blow; cleave or split asunder.
shatter
To cause the destruction or ruin of; destroy:
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  1. To cause the destruction or ruin of; destroy:
  2. To break into pieces; smash or burst:
  3. To break or burst into pieces suddenly, as with a blow
shiver
To cause (a sail) to flutter by sailing too close to the wind.
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  1. To cause (a sail) to flutter by sailing too close to the wind.
  2. To cause to break suddenly into fragments or splinters.
  3. To break into fragments or splinters; shatter.
smash
To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter.
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  1. To break (something) into pieces suddenly, noisily, and violently; shatter.
  2. To break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow or collision:
  3. To break or shatter into pieces with noise or violence
sunder
To break into two or more pieces or parts; sever:
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  1. To break into two or more pieces or parts; sever:
  2. To become broken into parts or disunited.
  3. To dissolve (a connection or relationship):
split
To separate, cut, or divide into two or more parts; cause to separate along the grain or length; break into layers
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  1. To separate, cut, or divide into two or more parts; cause to separate along the grain or length; break into layers
  2. To separate or break up through failure to agree, etc.
  3. To divide and share:
Find another word for splinter. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for splinter, like: flake, wood, shatter, break, sliver, shiver, fragment, piece, chip, shiver and split.

Sentence Examples

  • Government will splinter once the attacks occur.

  • Within the enclosure of the Khalifa's house is the tomb of Hubert Howard, son of the 9th earl of Carlisle, who was killed in the house at the capture of the city by a splinter of a shell fired at the Mandi's tomb.

  • Wiedemann, in Erlangen Sitzungsberichte (1904, p. 33 o), translates the phrase given above as splinter of wood, by the term wooden cross.

  • Oxygen, recognized by its power of igniting a glowing splinter, results from the decomposition of oxides of the noble metals, peroxides, chlorates, nitrates and other highly oxygenized salts.

  • spon, a chip or splinter of wood, cf.

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