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Definition of "splintered" [splintered]

  • Simple past tense and past participle of splinter. (verb)

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Use "splintered" in a sentence
  • "Bill built the fire into a roaring blaze, feeding it with sticks splintered from the dead palm."
  • "Wood splintered from the French deck and side as the shots punched out."
  • "The royal apartments had once been lined with fine limestone slabs exquisitely sculptured and painted; but these had been literally mashed to pieces before the place was fired, and lay in splintered heaps among the débris of charred beams and blackened bricks."
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