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Another word for divide

Verb

  1. To make a division into parts, sections, or branches

    2. See also:

    part

    assemble

  2. To separate into branches or branchlike parts

    3. See also:

    part

  3. To become or cause to become apart one from another

    4. Idioms:
    See also:

    assemble

  4. To give out in portions or shares

    5. See also:

    collect

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Sentence Examples

  • "Divide it among the poor people who need it so badly," said some.

  • These lessees are usually speculators, who divide and sub-let the estate.

  • Meanwhile the political parties which were to divide the new Duma had taken shape.

  • It is customary to divide the Orthorrhapha into the two divisions Nematocera and Brachycera, in the former of which the antennae are elongate and in a more or less primitive condition, as described above, while in the latter these organs are short, and, as already explained, apparently composed of only three joints.

  • There was always a divide before the Schism.

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