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split up en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Divided or separated.
  2. (not-comparable, obsolete, slang) Of a person: having long legs.
    • He should preferably be tall, weighty, well split up in the legs (especially from the hip-joint to the knee), neatly turned at the knee and ankle joints […] 1913, S. A. Mussabini, Charles Ranson, The Complete Athletic Trainer, page 17:

split up en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, qualifier:Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
    • The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building.
    • After she left to go travelling, my girlfriend and I split up.
  2. (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
    • The brothers never behaved in class when they were together, so we had to split them up for the exam.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
splitting up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
splits up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
split up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
split up Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (14)

es separar (transitive) · fi erottaa (transitive) · tr ayırmak (transitive) · fi erota (disassociate) · es desparejar (transitive) · tr ayrılmak (disassociate) · es dividir (transitive) · tr dağılmak (disassociate) · es separarse (disassociate) · it dividersi (disassociate) · mi whakawāwāhi (disassociate) · es desparejarse (disassociate) · eo disiĝi (disassociate) · es dividirse (disassociate)