CARVE UP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Separate into parts or portions

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