splintering
Meaning of splintering
verb
- To come apart into long sharp fragments.
The tall tree splintered during the storm.
- To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
His third kick splintered the door.
- (of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.
- To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
noun
The process or result of something being splintered.
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Hyphenation of splintering
splin-ter-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- splintering is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
splintering synonyms
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