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COMPARTMENTALISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they compartmentalise ... he / she / it compartmentalises
Past simple: compartmentalised
Past participle: compartmentalised
-ing form: compartmentalising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Separate into isolated compartments or categories
Example:
You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!
Synonyms:
compartmentalise; compartmentalize; cut up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "compartmentalise" is one way to...):
disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)
compartment (a space into which an area is subdivided)
compartmentalisation (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)
compartmentalisation (a mild state of dissociation)
