splinteringly

adv

splinteringly

adv

Etymology From splintering + -ly.

1

So as to splinter.

When the door finally, splinteringly gave way, he stumbled clear across the room beyond, fetched up against an instrument console, recovered his balance, and gaped.1963, Poul Anderson, Industrial Revolution:

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