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in two en · ADP

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:set phrase) Into two parts.
    • [I]f you can cleave it in two with one stroke of your sword, I will give you my daughter to wife. 1900, Andrew Lang, “The Twin Brothers”, in The Grey Fairy Book:
    • They carry a branch half a day, meaning to do great things with it, and then they snap it in two. 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Kaa’s Hunting”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 47:
    • [S]outherners are expected to vote overwhelmingly to carve Africa's biggest country in two. 2011 January 10, Alex Perry, “Can Sudan Split Without Falling Apart?”, in Time, retrieved 23 Jul 2014:
  2. Performed further back than "in one", but still not fully upstage.

Hyponyms

asunder

Synonyms

in half · in twain

Translations (10)

sv itu (into two parts) · ru напопола́м (into two parts) · fi kahtia (into two parts) · ga leathanach (into two parts) · nl in tweeën (into two parts) · ru попола́м (into two parts) · el στα δύο (into two parts) · grc δίχα (into two parts) · ru на полови́ны (into two parts) · de entzwei (into two parts)