splintering

Verb

splinter (third-person singular simple present splinters, present participle splintering, simple past and past participle splintered)

1. (intransitive) To come apart into long sharp fragments.
   • The tall tree splintered during the storm.
2. (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
   • His third kick splintered the door.
3. (figuratively) To break, or cause to break, into factions.
   • The government splintered when the coalition members could not agree.
4. (transitive) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb.
   • it will be very hard for Me to Splinter up the broken confuséd Pieces of it.1659, Matthew Wren, Monarchy Asserted Or The State of Monarchicall & Popular Government

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