n. 1 piece, portion, part, chip, shard or sherd, splinter, sliver, scrap, bit, speck, snippet, morsel, crumb, particle, remnant, shred, snatch A fragment of the airliner was found twenty miles from the crash 2 fragments. smithereens; debris, Literary disjecta membra The car was blown into thousands of fragments I tried to pick up the fragments of my former life.
v. 3 shatter, splinter, break or split (up), explode, disintegrate, come or go to pieces, come apart I picked up the skull and it fragmented in my fingers