lyödä säpäleiksi — meaning in English

English meaning

• splinter noun A thin, sharp fragment broken off from a larger piece, often wood.

Senses

lyödä säpäleiksi is used for these senses in English:

• splinter (transitive) To cause to break apart into long sharp fragments.
• splinter (figuratively, of a group) To break, or cause to break, into factions.

splinter — full definition

1. noun A thin, sharp fragment broken off from a larger piece, often wood.
2. noun A smaller group that has broken away from a larger organization.
3. verb To break, or cause to break, into thin sharp pieces.
4. verb To break apart into smaller factions.

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