splinteredadj.
/ˈsplɪntəd/ a. Broken into splinters; split off as a splinter; shattered, shivered.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > bursting, shattering, or breaking into pieces > shattered or smashed
forfrushedc1330
forbrittened?a1400
shivereda1542
shattering1567
dishivered1624
shattered1667
splintered1719
smashed-upa1822
1719 Free-thinker No. 95. 1 A Seamstress has been..sadly wounded by the splintered Glass.
a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 414 A splinter'd stump, bleach'd to a snowy white.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 183 It would be right..to take away the splintered portions of bone.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Galahad i, in Poems (new ed.) II. 174 The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xiii. 333 The occasional fall of a splintered fragment of rock.
b. Of rocks, etc.: Ragged or jagged through splintering.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [adjective] > splintered
splintered1832
1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women liv, in Poems (new ed.) 135 The splintered crags that wall the dell With spires of silver shine.
1850 B. Taylor Eldorado (1862) v. 42 A chain of splintered peaks in the distance.
1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason xiv. 234 A little bay, Walled from the sea by splintered cliffs and grey.
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