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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

divide up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To divide, particularly into separate shares for distribution.
    • Grace and her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lost their mother during birth, and their alcoholic father during their hardscrabble childhood. The pair are divided up by social services, Grace sent to one side of the continent, Gilbert to the other. 2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club:
    • divide up the cake into 5 equal parts

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dividing up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
divided up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
divided up Tense=Past lexicographic
divides up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

divy up · divvy up

Synonyms

divide