COMPARTMENTALIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they compartmentalize ... he / she / it compartmentalizes

Past simple: compartmentalized

Past participle: compartmentalized

Meaning:

Separate into isolated compartments or categories

Example:

You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!

Synonyms:

compartmentalise; compartmentalize; cut up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "compartmentalize" is one way to...):

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)

compartment (a space into which an area is subdivided)

compartmental (divided up into compartments or categories)

compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)

compartmentalization (a mild state of dissociation)