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splintered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Splinter \Splin"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Splintered; p. pr. & vb. n. Splintering.] [Cf. LG. splittern, splinteren. See Splint, n., Split.]
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To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and . . . abandoned the field to the enemy.
--Prescott. To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
--Bp. Wren.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: splinter)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Splintered was a British experimental rock group active between 1991 and 1998.
Splintered is the first novel of the Splintered series written by A.G. Howard or Anita Grace Howard. The second novel is Unhinged. The third part is Ensnared. It's a contemporary reworking of Lewis Carroll’s "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland". Alyssa gardner is the main protagonist. The story is modern day adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The Italian translation was ''Il mio splendido migliore amico ''
Usage examples of "splintered".
At the time she had not known about old plaster, old stairs, old walls, nothing about splintered woodwork and senile plumbing-either balky or incontinent.
We also saw on our way the trunk of a tree barked in long strips and splintered deeply.
The wretch screamed through a ruin of splintered teeth, blowing bloody froth from his mangled lips.
The people gave back as the body came hurtling down, to smash on the marble pave, spattering blood and brains, and lie crushed in its splintered armor, like a mangled beetle.
They pressed on as branches fell all about them, as the ground shivered beneath their feet, as lightning dazzled in wave upon wave until day and night melded and splintered and here and there in the forest trees exploded into flame where lightning struck and dry limbs and dry leaves flashed and blazed.
Her hand closed on something, but it was only the butt of dead Millwards halberd, a length of splintered wood.
The Persian hacked at him overhand with an axe, and his shield splintered into fragments as the blade bit through the roundel.
At once they all splintered in different directions and left the wine pourer to face Meren.
Of bipedal travelers and their accompanying quaternion of talkative trees, there was no sign save for some splintered branches and a mighty axe that, in the absence of its owner, lay useless and forlorn amid the settling debris.
This eaten, Quath hobbled forth, favoring one leg which had splintered a knee.
Where Sky rested on the catwalk beneath the window, Questioner was caught within an interweave of splintered wood, rubble, and less definable detritus.
It was splintered and broken, half-melted and recongealed in places, for a distance of nine or ten meters.
Another had to be shot for meat, reft beyond cure by an ugly, splintered bone shredded through the thick hide of its gaskin.
The sackers barked again, and again pointless showers of dust and splintered timbers rose to scatter down on the people.
Otherwise stripped to loincloth and sandals, the sacrificer wore a fantastically plumed headdress, whose golden bangles splintered the sunrays into dazzling wheels of light and which hid his head.