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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 | ||
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