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    CARVE UP

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     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Separate into parts or portionsplay

    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

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