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FRAGMENTISE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Break or cause to break into pieces
Example:
The plate fragmented
Synonyms:
break up; fragment; fragmentise; fragmentize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "fragmentise" is one way to...):
break; come apart; fall apart; separate; split up (become separated into pieces or fragments)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fragmentise"):
atomise; atomize (break up into small particles)
bray; comminute; crunch; grind; mash (reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading)
pound (break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle)
sunder (break apart or in two, using violence)
sliver; splinter (break up into splinters or slivers)
rag (break into lumps before sorting)
crumb (break into crumbs)
brecciate (break into breccia)
crush (break into small pieces)
grate; grind (make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody of something
