| means | (verb) make a division or separation
divide, separate |
| means | (verb) divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"
discerp, take apart, dismember |
| means | (verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of
disjoin, disjoint |
| means | (verb) set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
break up, sever |
| means | (verb) come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"
come off, come away, detach |
| means | (verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint
disjoint, disjoin |
| means | (verb) divide into parts, pieces, or sections; "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British"
partition off, partition |
| means | (verb) separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment"
detach |
| means | (verb) separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off"
zone, partition |
| means | (verb) isolate or separate; "She was shut off from the friends"
shut off, close off |
| means | (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
set apart, specify, assign |
| means | (verb) distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country"
spread, distribute |
| means | (verb) divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
segregate |
| means | (verb) undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
reduce |
| means | (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race
separate, discriminate, single out |
| means | (verb) distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis"; "I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip"
apportion, allocate |
| means | (verb) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
isolate |
| means | (verb) rip off violently and forcefully; "The passing bus tore off her side mirror"
tear off, tear away |
| means | (verb) come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
divide, part, separate |
| means | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of; "unravel the thread"
unscramble, unpick, untangle, unknot, unravel |
| means | (verb) set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
keep apart, isolate, set apart, sequester, sequestrate |
| means | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
sort out, sort, class, assort, separate, classify |
| means | (verb) select from a group; "She was singled out for her outstanding performance"
single out |
| means | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities
contradistinguish |
| means | (verb) remove surgically; "amputate limbs"
cut off, amputate |
| means | (verb) cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
lop, discerp, sever |
| means | (verb) place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates"
isolate, insulate |
| means | (verb) act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
separate, divide |
| means | (verb) give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"
portion, allot, assign |
| means | (verb) regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"
decouple, dissociate |
| means | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"
take, select, choose, pick out |
| means | (verb) separate clearly, as if by boundaries
demarcate |
| means | (verb) remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
chop off, cut off, lop off |
| means | (verb) get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months"
divorce, split up |
| means | (verb) force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
divide, part, separate, disunite |
| means | (verb) examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
screen out, sort, screen, sieve |
| means | (verb) part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
divorce, disunite, dissociate, disjoint, disassociate |
| means | (verb) set boundaries to and delimit; "mark out the territory"
mark out, mark off |
| means | (verb) separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county"
segregate |
| means | (verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"
sequester |
| means | (verb) blow away or off with a current of air; "winnow chaff"
winnow |
| means | (verb) obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound"
isolate |
| means | (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
confiscate, seize, sequester, attach, impound |
| means | (verb) cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
resolve, dissolve, break up |
| means | (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
split up, fall apart, break, come apart, separate |