Definitions for splinters

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splinters splin·ter

Spelling: [splin-ter]

IPA: /ˈsplɪn tər/

Splinters is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 546 anagrams from letters in splinters (eilnprsst).

Definitions for splinters

noun

1. a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
2. splinter group.

verb (used with object)

1. to split or break into splinters.
2. to break off (something) in splinters.
3. to split or break (a larger group) into separate factions or independent groups.
4. Obsolete. to secure or support by a splint or splints, as a broken limb.

verb (used without object)

1. to be split or broken into splinters.
2. to break off in splinters.

Origin of splinters

1350-1400; Middle English Middle Dutch or Middle Low German; cf. splint

Examples for splinters

It turned out that a splinter of iron wire had penetrated the core.

This faction of the opposition is itself fractured into dozens of splinter groups.

One day Falk came upon a man gnawing a splinter of pine wood.

The second lesson is that progressive movements all too often splinter among themselves, rather than uniting around common values.

Likewise, there have been reports of violence stemming from Southern splinter groups as well.

Would the teeth of a crocodile not splinter under that word?

His body seemed to break and splinter, and he sprawled forward on the sand.

A tornado does not just topple trees, it tears off their branches and twists their trunks until they splinter.

But splinter added a few words of his own and they became quieter.

DS: I got a splinter of wood through my ear as some doors were exploding.