splinter
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Is splinter a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.
2. (linguistics) A fragment of a component word in a blend.
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.Examples: "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."intransitive
2. (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.Examples: "His third kick splintered the door."; "After splintering their lances, they wheeled about, and […] abandoned the field to the enemy."transitive
3. (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.Examples: "The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree."; "The unpopular new policies splintered the company."figuratively
4. (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.Examples: "it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confuséd Pieces of it."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary