Definitions
break up into splinters or slivers
Word origin
From Middle English splenter, splinter, from Middle Dutch splinter, equivalent to splint + -er.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“His third kick splintered the door.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Wood shard”8 letters
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