carve up

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verb

separate into parts or portions
- divide the cake into three equal parts
- The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
• Syn:
divide, split, split up, separate, dissever
• Ant:
unite (for: divide)
• Derivationally related forms:
split (for: split), divisible (for: divide), division (for: divide), divider (for: divide)
• Hypernyms:
change integrity
• Hyponyms:
subdivide, format, initialize, initialise, sectionalize,
sectionalise, triangulate, unitize, unitise, lot, parcel,
sliver, splinter, paragraph, canton, Balkanize, Balkanise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something