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sliver

English

  1. 🔊 a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
  2. 🔊 a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal
    “he got a splinter in his finger”
  3. 🔊 form into slivers
    “sliver wood”
  4. 🔊 divide into slivers or splinters
  5. 🔊 break up into splinters or slivers
    “The wood splintered”

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