FRAGMENTIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they fragmentize ... he / she / it fragmentizes

Past simple: fragmentized

Past participle: fragmentized

-ing form: fragmentizing

Meaning:

Break or cause to break into pieces

Example:

The plate fragmented

Synonyms:

break up; fragment; fragmentise; fragmentize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

break; come apart; fall apart; separate; split up (become separated into pieces or fragments)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fragmentize"):

atomise; atomize (break up into small particles)

bray; comminute; crunch; grind; mash (reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading)

pound (break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle)

sunder (break apart or in two, using violence)

sliver; splinter (break up into splinters or slivers)

rag (break into lumps before sorting)

crumb (break into crumbs)

brecciate (break into breccia)

crush (break into small pieces)

grate; grind (make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody of something

Derivation:

fragment (a piece broken off or cut off of something else)