splitting
/ˈsplɪtɪŋ/ adjective B1- Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
- Very rapid. · They moved at a splitting pace.
- Severely painful. · I have a splitting headache.
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She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.
Anne sighed and betook herself to the back yard, over which a young new moon was shining through the leafless poplar boughs from an apple-green western sky, and where Matthew was splitting wood.
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