1. A sharp, slender piece, as of wood, bone, glass, or metal, split or broken off from a main body.
2. A splinter group.
3. to split or break into sharp, slender pieces; form splinters. see synonyms at break.
4. to cause to splinter.

1. A long, sharp fragment of material; often wood.
2. A group that formed by splitting off from a larger membership.
3. to come apart into long sharp fragments.
4. to cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
5. to break, or cause to break, into factions.

1. A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver.
2. to become split into long pieces.
3. to split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver.
4. to fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.

1. to split or rend into long thin pieces; shiver.
2. to support by a splint, as a broken limb; splint.
3. to be split or rent into long pieces; shiver.
4. A sharp-edged fragment of anything split or shivered off more or less in the direction of its length; a thin piece (in proportion to its length) of wood or other solid substance rent from the main body; a splint.

1. withdraw from an organization or communion
2. break up into splinters or slivers
3. a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
4. divide into slivers or splinters