verb Download 🔗Share To come apart into long sharp fragments. Examples : "The tall tree splintered during the storm." material action structure Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments. Examples : "His third kick splintered the door." material action process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions. Examples : "The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree." politics group organization Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb. Examples : "The doctor splintered the boy's broken arm, using small wooden pieces to hold the bones in place. " medicine body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading