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splitting (root: split)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective splitting has 1 sense
- splitting(s = adj.all) rending, ripping - resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"
THESAURUS
splitting
abscission, acute, amputation, apportionment, budgeting, butchering, catalysis, catalyst, chopping, cleavage, cutting, cutting the pie, decay, dialysis, dichotomy, dissociation, dividing, division, divvy, drastic, enucleation, excessive, excision, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fierce, fission, furious, great, hydrolysis, hydrolyst, immoderate, intemperate, intense, keen, laceration, mutilation, outrageous, parceling, partition, partitioning, photolysis, piercing, portioning, rationing, rending, repartition, resection, rigorous, ripping, rough, scission, section, severance, severe, sharing, sharing out, sharp, slashing, slicing, surgery, tearing, thermolysis, tough, unconscionable, vehement, venomous, violent, virulentROGET THESAURUS
splitting
Brittleness
N brittleness, fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility, house of cards, house of glass, brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile, splitting, lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.
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