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splintered

verb as in break into thin, small pieces

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Upstairs, in the living room, splintered logs of hemlock cackled and spat from inside the wood stove.

They splintered themselves into two categories: “Hardcore” and “Casual.”

As the term splintered, people clung to it and its variations.

He didn't lose anyone in "The Sudden Departure," but his family has splintered anyway.

Shields are again splintered into useless bits, and sparks fly from all the metallic collisions.

Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.

He glanced quickly at me out of a square, serious face, then plunged back through the splintered door toward the breakup inside.

There was a sharp snap as the boom, splintered in two in the middle, emerged from the waves, a useless thing.

Away it bounded, with the ease and certainty of a well-aimed arrow, over a ridge of splintered rocks.

"See," he said, holding the tiny flame above a splintered scar on the boards.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to splintered, such as: rive, smash, disintegrate, shatter, split, and fracture.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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