Dropped
Splintered and dropped are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Splintered" instead a noun "Dropped".
Splintered
Dropped and splintered are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dropped" instead a noun "Splintered".
Both words in one sentence
- When Harry and Professor Dumbledore enter Slughorn's house in Half Blood Prince, they see a grandfather clock lying "splintered at their feet, its face cracked, its pendulum lying a little farther away like a dropped sword." This seems to foreshadow Dumbledore's death later in the book.
Source: Foreshadowing / Literature
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Splintered and Dropped. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dropped/splintered
Dropped & Splintered. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dropped/splintered>.
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