noun, verb
noun a small thin sharp piece of wood, metal, glass, etc. that has broken off a larger piece:
splinters of glass * to remove a splinter from your finger
Part of speech: verb
1 (of wood, glass, stone, etc.) to break, or to make sth break, into small, thin sharp pieces:
[V] The mirror cracked but did not splinter. * The vase splintered into a thousand pieces. * [VN] The impact splintered the wood.
2 [V] (of a group of people) to divide into smaller groups that are no longer connected; to separate from a larger group:
The party began to splinter. * Several firms have splintered off from the original company.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for splinter is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is splinter a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, splinter is tagged as verb.
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