- splinter, sliver, flinders - a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it flew into flinders"
--1 is a kind of bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap
Derived forms: verb sliver3, verb sliver2 - paring, sliver, shaving - a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
--2 is a kind of fragment
--2 has particulars: splintDerived forms: verb sliver3, verb sliver1
- sliver, splinter - divide into slivers or splinters
--1 is one way to divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun sliver2
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- splinter, sliver - break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"
--2 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun sliver1
Something ----s
- sliver - form into slivers; "sliver wood"
--3 is one way to shape, form
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun sliver1, noun sliver2
Somebody ----s something