See split in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument:
carve, cleave1, cut, dissever, sever, slice, slit. See assembleTo undergo partial breaking:
crack, fissure, fracture, rupture. See helpTo separate or pull apart by force:
rend, rip, rive, run, tear1. See assemble, helpTo become or cause to become apart one from another.
Also used with up: break, detach, disjoin, disjoint, disunite, divide, divorce, part, separate. Idioms: part company, set at odds. See assemble- (Informal)
To break away or withdraw from membership in an association or a federation:
secede, splinter (off). See participate, politics - (Informal)
To terminate a relationship or an association by or as if by leaving one another.
Also used with up: break off, break up, part, separate. Idioms: call it quits, come to a parting of the ways, part company. See assemble, continue - (Slang)
To move or proceed away from a place:
depart, exit, get away, get off, go, go away, leave1, pull out, quit, retire, run (along), withdraw. (Informal) cut out, push off, shove off. (Slang) blow1, take off. Idioms: hit the road, take leave. See approach
noun
The act or an instance of separating one thing from another:
detachment, disjunction, disjuncture, disseverance, disseverment, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, parting, partition, separation, severance. See assemble, partThe result of cutting:
cut, gash, incision, slash, slice, slit. See enter, helpA usually narrow partial opening caused by splitting and rupture:
break, chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, rift. See openAn interruption in friendly relations:
alienation, breach, break, disaffection, estrangement, fissure, rent2, rift, rupture, schism. See assemble, helpThat which is allotted:
allocation, allotment, allowance, dole, lot, measure, part, portion, quantum, quota, ration, share. (Informal) cut. (Slang) divvy. See collect
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