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Another word for splinter

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Verb

  1. To crack or split into two or more fragments by means of or as a result of force, a blow, or strain

    See also:

    help

  2. To break away or withdraw from membership in an association or a federation.

    See also:

    politics

    participate

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Another word for splinter

Noun
  1. See also:

    bit

Verb
  1. See also:

    break

    smash

    break

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Sentence Examples

  • Government will splinter once the attacks occur.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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