English verb: carve up | |||
1. | carve up (social) separate into parts or portions | ||
Samples | Divide the cake into three equal parts. The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I. | ||
Synonyms | dissever, divide, separate, split, split up | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | change integrity | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | Balkanise, Balkanize, canton, format, initialise, initialize, lot, paragraph, parcel, sectionalise, sectionalize, sliver, splinter, subdivide, triangulate, unitise, unitize | ||
Antonyms | unite, unify | ||