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Adjective splintered has 1 sense
- shattered, smashed, splintered - broken into sharp pieces; "shattered glass"; "your eyeglasses are smashed"; "the police came in through the splintered door"
Antonym: unbroken (indirect, via broken)
Verb splinter has 3 senses
- secede, splinter, break away - withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"
--1 is one way to separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
Sample sentence:
The girls splinter the wooden sticks
- sliver, splinter - divide into slivers or splinters
--2 is one way to divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
Sample sentence:
The wooden sticks splinter
- splinter, sliver - break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"
--3 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
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