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Nouns (9)

n. extending the legs at right angles to the trunks (one in front and the other in back)

n. division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"

n. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

n. an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock"

tear, rent, rip

n. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"

Verbs (18)

burst, puncture, break open

v. break open or apart suddenly; "The bubble burst"

tear, cleave, rive

v. part

part, separate, move apart

v. go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"

split up, part, separate, break up

v. discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"

split up, separate, divide, dissever, carve up

v. separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (8)

split

adj. (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain; "we bought split logs for the fireplace"

hyperfine

adj. extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components; "hyperfine structure"

in disagreement

adj. "opinions are divided"

cut, slashed, gashed

adj. wounded by cutting deeply; "got a gashed arm in a knife fight"; "had a slashed cheek from the broken glass"

rent, cleft

adj. being divided or separated; "split between love and hate"

Fuzzynyms (86)

fault, fracture, geological fault, fault line

n. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"

breach

n. an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

unorthodoxy, heresy

n. any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

infidelity, unfaithfulness

n. the quality of being unfaithful

break, breakage, breaking

n. the act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable"

separation

n. the act of dividing or disconnecting

split, rent, rip

n. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

break, breakage, breaking

n. the act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable"

rupture

n. the act of making a sudden noisy break

separation

n. the act of dividing or disconnecting

schism, split

n. division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"

rift

n. a narrow fissure in rock

chink

n. a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall

splinter, sliver, break into splinters

v. break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"

detach

v. cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it"

come off, detach, come away

v. come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"

pull, rip, rive, rend

v. tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

section, segment

v. divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"

break, bust, cause to break

v. ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"

pass, crack, break through

v. as through a barrier; "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"

share, apportion, portion out, divvy up

v. give out as one's portion or share

stick, bond, bind, stick to, adhere, hold fast

v. stick to firmly; "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall?"

stick, cling, adhere, cohere

v. come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"

hold, keep, maintain

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

support, support financially, see through

v. support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"

support, hold, sustain, hold up

v. be the physical support of; carry the weight of; "The beam holds up the roof"; "He supported me with one hand while I balanced on the beam"; "What's holding that mirror?"

clasp, brooch

v. fasten with or as if with a brooch

fracture, crack

v. become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"

cleave, make by cutting into

v. make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"

estrange

v. remove from customary environment or associations; "Her busy schedule removed her from her duties as a mother"

part, separate, divide, take apart, pull apart, disunite, force apart

v. force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"

fragment, break up, fragmentize, break into fragments

v. break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"

Synonyms (152)

cut up, carve, cut to pieces

v. cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham"

busted

adj. out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted"

chipped

adj. having a small piece broken off: "a chipped tooth"

cracked

adj. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide

crumbled, fragmented

adj. having been divided; having the unity destroyed; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group"

ground, crushed

adj. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"

dissolved

adj. (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form; "add the dissolved gelatin"

fractured

adj. used of a break in esp. bone: "a broken neck"; "fractured skull"

unkept, violated

adj. (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts"

capillary, hairlike

adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"

gossamer, light, sheer, transparent, vaporous, airy, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, see-through

adj. so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"

filamentous, threadlike, thready

adj. thin in diameter; resembling a thread

fine, slim, slender, tenuous

adj. very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"

flimsy

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

papery

adj. thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material"

sleazy

adj. of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"

bicameral, two-chambered

adj. consisting of two chambers; "the bicameral heart of a fish"

bifid

adj. divided into two lobes; "a bifid petal"

bifurcate, branched, forked, biramous, pronged, prongy

adj. resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"

bifurcated

adj. divided into or made up of two parts; "socially bifurcated populations"

bilocular, biloculate

adj. divided into or containing two cells or chambers; "having a bilocular capsule"

bipartite, parted, dissected

adj. used esp. of leaves

chambered

adj. having compartmental chambers; "a spiral chambered seashell"

split, rent, cleft

adj. being divided or separated; "split between love and hate"

cleft, cloven, bisulcate

adj. used of hooves

compartmental, compartmentalized

adj. divided up into compartments or categories; "most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized"

dichotomous

adj. divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications

disjointed

adj. taken apart at the joints; "a disjointed fowl"

disjunct

adj. having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects

separate, disunited

episodic

adj. of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together"

metameric, segmental

adj. having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters

mullioned

adj. of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone; "mullioned windows"

partitioned, partitioned off

adj. divided by partitions

pronged, tined

adj. having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a three-tined fork"

sectional, sectioned

adj. consisting of or divided into sections; "a sectional sofa"; "sectioned plates"

separate, separated

adj. not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated"

subdivided

adj. divided again after a first division, e.g. of a tract of land, divided into lots

torn

adj. disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"

scraped, abraded, skinned

adj. having skin of a specified kind

scarred, battle-scarred

adj. scarred by battle

bit, bitten, stung

adj. aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay"

livid, black-and-blue

adj. discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises"

bruised, contused, contusioned

adj. injured without breaking the skin; "a cut forehead and bruised cheek"

hurt, wounded, bruised

adj. suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle; "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women"

burned

adj. injured by intense heat (as of fire or the sun); "his cracked, black burned lips"

disabled, hors de combat, out of action

adj. so badly injured as to be excused from continuing; "disabled veterans"

disjointed, separated, dislocated

adj. separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder"

harmed

adj. having had pain or loss or suffering inflicted

hurt, wounded

adj. suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle; "nursing his wounded arm"; "ambulances...for the hurt men and women"

torn, mangled, lacerated

adj. having edges that are jagged from injury

maimed, mutilated

adj. badly injured, perhaps with amputation; "the maimed right hand twisted and clutched"- P.B.Kyne; "mutilated victims of the rocket attack"

bicameral, two-chambered

adj. consisting of two chambers; "the bicameral heart of a fish"

bifid

adj. divided into two lobes; "a bifid petal"

bifurcate, branched, forked, biramous, pronged, prongy

bifurcated

adj. divided into or made up of two parts; "socially bifurcated populations"

bilocular, biloculate

adj. divided into or containing two cells or chambers; "having a bilocular capsule"

bipartite, parted, dissected

adj. used esp. of leaves

chambered

adj. having compartmental chambers; "a spiral chambered seashell"

cleft, cloven, bisulcate

adj. used of hooves

compartmental, compartmentalized

adj. divided up into compartments or categories; "most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized"

dichotomous

adj. divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications

disjointed

adj. taken apart at the joints; "a disjointed fowl"

disjunct

adj. having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects

separate, disunited

episodic

adj. of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together"

metameric, segmental

adj. having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters

mullioned

adj. of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone; "mullioned windows"

partitioned, partitioned off

adj. divided by partitions

pronged, tined

adj. having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a three-tined fork"

sectional, sectioned

adj. consisting of or divided into sections; "a sectional sofa"; "sectioned plates"

separate, separated

adj. not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated"

split, in disagreement

adj. "opinions are divided"

subdivided

adj. divided again after a first division, e.g. of a tract of land, divided into lots

torn

adj. disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"

Antonyms (27)

unite, unify, merge

v. become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "Will the two Koreas unify?"

unite, unify, act in concert

v. act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief

league

v. unite to form a league

pair, couple, pair off, partner off

v. form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off"

join, get together, fall in

v. become part of; become a member of a group or organization; "He joined the Communist Party as a young man"

mix, blend, meld, combine, fuse, merge, conflate, commingle, immix, coalesce

v. mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"

run, melt, melt down

v. reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun"

split

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