Splintering Synonyms and Antonyms

To break away or withdraw from membership in an association or a federation.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. splitting
Withdraw from an organization or communion
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. breaking
  2. splitting
  3. smashing
  4. shivering
  5. fragmenting
  6. seceding
  7. fracturing
  8. slivering
  9. slicing
  10. rending
  11. flaking
  12. disintegrating
  13. chipping
  14. riving
Antonyms:
  1. combining
  2. mending
  3. fixing
Break up into splinters or slivers
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slivering
To cause to splinter.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. breaking
The act of chipping something
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. chip
  2. chipping

Splintering Sentence Examples

  • The government is splintering, Lana, he continued.

  • The explosive used should be of such a character as to throw out or detach masses of rock without much splintering, which would destroy the blocks for slate-making.

  • Splintering and groaning filled the air, followed by muffled crashes as the trees behind the Others toppled into the snow.

  • They also express a concern over allowing dogs to consume bones because of the potential for choking or bone splintering.

  • Suddenly the house resounded with heavy blows and the splintering of wood.

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