Explode and Splinter

explode

Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
- usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
- synonyms: detonate, blow up, set off
Burst outward, usually with noise.
- usage: "The champagne bottle exploded"
- synonyms: burst
Show a violent emotional reaction.
- usage: "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"
Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.
- usage: "His anger exploded"
- synonyms: burst forth, break loose
Destroy by exploding.
- usage: "The enemy exploded the bridge"
Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/.
Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval.
Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete.
(v.) ()
- synonyms: detonate, blow up
Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner.
- usage: "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"
- synonyms: irrupt

(v.t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion or doctrine.
(v.t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
(v.t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
(v.i.) To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.
(v.t.) To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.
(v.i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.
(v.i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

splinter

A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal.
- usage: "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers"
- synonyms: sliver

Withdraw from an organization or communion.
- usage: "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"
- synonyms: secede, break away
Divide into slivers or splinters.
- synonyms: sliver
Break up into splinters or slivers.
- usage: "The wood splintered"
- synonyms: sliver

(n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.
(v.i.) To become split into long pieces.
(n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
(n.) To fasten or confine with splinters or splints, as a broken limb.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary