Implode and Splinter

verb

• Burst inward.
  • usage: "The bottle imploded"
  • synonyms: go off

noun

• 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

verb

• 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.