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COMPARTMENTALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they compartmentalize ... he / she / it compartmentalizes
Past simple: compartmentalized
Past participle: compartmentalized
-ing form: compartmentalizing
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 "compartmentalize" 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)
compartmental (divided up into compartments or categories)
compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)
compartmentalization (a mild state of dissociation)
