splinter

Substantiv

1. 1

   A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood.

2. 2

   A long, sharp fragment of material, often wood. A small such fragment that gets embedded in the flesh.

3. 3

   A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.

4. 4

   A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.

5. 5

   A fragment of a component word in a blend.

Verb

1. 1

   To come apart into long sharp fragments.

   The tall tree splintered during the storm.

   It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.

2. 2

   To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.

   His third kick splintered the door.

   After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and […] abandoned the field to the enemy.

3. 3

   übertragenTo break, or cause to break, into factions.

   The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.

   The unpopular new policies splintered the company.

4. 4

   To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.

   it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confuséd Pieces of it.

Formen

Plural

splinters

Präteritum

splintered

Partizip II

splintered

Partizip I

splintering

3. Person Singular

splinters