DIVIDE

Definition:

1. [noun] a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
   
   
2. [noun] a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
   Synonyms: watershed, water parting
   
   
3. [verb] separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
   Synonyms: split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up
   
   
4. [verb] perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
   Synonyms: fraction
   
   
5. [verb] act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
   Synonyms: separate
   
   
6. [verb] come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
   Synonyms: separate, part
   
   
7. [verb] make a division or separation
   Synonyms: separate
   
   
8. [verb] force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
   Synonyms: separate, disunite, part
   
   

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Related Words:

• subdivide
• format, initialize, initialise
• sectionalize, sectionalise
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• sliver, splinter
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• canton
• Balkanize, Balkanise
• halve
• quarter
• subdivide
• polarize, polarise
• calve, break up
• chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off
• disjoin, disjoint
• detach, come off, come away
• segregate
• segment
• reduce
• segment, section
• partition, partition off
• dismember, take apart, discerp
• gerrymander
• partition, zone
• break
• disperse, dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter
• rail, rail off
• detach
• shut off, close off
• compartmentalize, compartmentalise, cut up
• polarize, polarise
• sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate
• disjoin, disjoint
• disjoint, disarticulate
• disconnect
• cut
• tear
• joint
• gin
• break
• sever, break up
• tear, rupture, snap, bust
• continental divide
• Great Divide