splintering

Speech parts

1. splintering - Noun

2. splintering - Verb

Meaning

of Splinter

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

chip chipping fleck flake rift split bit breaking chips fragment splitting crack divergence cracking fracture
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Antonyms

hole repair restoration reconstruction resort cure
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Hypernyms

break breaking breakage

Phrases with the word

bone splintering splintering apart

Examples

Picture this: A mountain splintering the sky like a broken bone, its western precipice plummeting onto jumbled scree. Sheri S. Tepper

Let us not allow the splits and splintering to frighten us. Gotse Delchev

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia. George Ayittey

He warned that increasing military pressure on the Jalisco gang, which has already suffered from internal rifts and splintering, could lead it to break apart into warring factions as has happened with other dominant cartels in recent years. Source: Internet

Devastating secrets come to light, splintering the unit and forcing Tally to question her blind trust. Source: Internet

He tried to utilize the power vacuums and political rivalries commonly formed inside fledgling nations as they separated from major, splintering countries. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

splinterable splinterd splinteriness splinteringly splinterization splinterize