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split up
vb (adverb)
1. (tr) to separate out into parts; divide
2. (intr) to become separated or parted through disagreement: they split up after years of marriage.
3. to break down or be capable of being broken down into constituent parts: I have split up the question into three parts.
n
the act or an instance of separating
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Noun | 1. | split up - an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock" |
Verb | 1. | split up - get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months" |
2. | split up - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" change integrity - change in physical make-up subdivide - divide into smaller and smaller pieces; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!" initialise, initialize, format - divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data; "Please format this disk before entering data!" sectionalise, sectionalize - divide into sections, especially into geographic sections; "sectionalize a country" triangulate - divide into triangles or give a triangular form to; "triangulate the piece of cardboard" lot - divide into lots, as of land, for example parcel - divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land" paragraph - divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed" canton - divide into cantons, of a country | |
3. | split up - discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" give the bounce, give the gate, give the axe - terminate a relationship abruptly; "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman" disunify, break apart - break up or separate; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989" disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce - part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" break with - end a relationship; "China broke with Russia" split up, divorce - get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months" secede, splinter, break away - withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" break away, break - interrupt a continued activity; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" | |
4. | split up - become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" change integrity - change in physical make-up burst, break open, split - come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure; "The bubble burst" puncture - be pierced or punctured; "The tire punctured" smash - break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow; "The window smashed" break - destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments; "He broke the glass plate"; "She broke the match" fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, break up - break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented" crush - become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure; "The plastic bottle crushed against the wall" |
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Translations
rozejít se
gå fra hinanden
jakaa
prekinuti
分裂する
갈라서다
göra slut
แยกทาง
chia ra
w>split up
vt sep money, work → (auf)teilen; meanings → aufteilen; party, organization → spalten; meeting → ein Ende machen (+dat); two people → trennen; crowd → zerstreuen
vi → zerbrechen; (= divide) → sich teilen; (meeting, crowd) → sich spalten; (partners) → sich voneinander trennen; he split up with her → er hat mit ihr Schluss gemacht
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split up
→ يَنْفَصِلُ rozejít se gå fra hinanden entzweien χωρίζω separarse jakaa se séparer prekinuti separarsi 分裂する 갈라서다 uit elkaar gaan dele rozdzielić się separar-se расставаться göra slut แยกทาง ayrılmak chia ra 分手Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009