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CARVE UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Separate into parts or portions
Example:
The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
Synonyms:
carve up; dissever; divide; separate; split; split up
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "carve up" is one way to...):
change integrity (change in physical make-up)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "carve up"):
subdivide (divide into smaller and smaller pieces)
format; initialise; initialize (divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data)
sectionalise; sectionalize (divide into sections, especially into geographic sections)
triangulate (divide into triangles or give a triangular form to)
unitise; unitize (divide (bulk material) and process as units)
lot (divide into lots, as of land, for example)
parcel (divide into parts)
sliver; splinter (divide into slivers or splinters)
paragraph (divide into paragraphs, as of text)
canton (divide into cantons, of a country)
Balkanise; Balkanize (divide a territory into small, hostile states)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
