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• v  separate into parts or portions
• v  separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
• v  discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
• v  go one's own way; move apart
• v  come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
• s  resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree

• Many signers regretted the manifesto and its party-splitting implications.
• His discovery makes it conceivable that by midcentury we could satisfy our global energy needs by splitting each second just a third of the water in MIT's swimming pool.
• The doctor did that by splitting the penis up the middle and using the flesh from the scrotum and the root of the penis to mold a labia and clitoris.

• divide
• split
• split up
• separate
• dissever
• carve up
• cleave
• rive
• part
• break
• break up
• burst
• break open
• rending
• ripping

• unite

News & Articles

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• Mid-Prairie JV 3 and 5
  Mid-Prairie ran its record to 3–5 by splitting a pair of games on June 4. Regina came to Wellman and won the first game 12 – 2 and Mid-Prairie won the second game 6 to 5.
  June 15, 2013 - The Kalona News
• Wendi Deng - Rupert Murdoch divorce, News Corp. divides too
  Wendi Deng controls non-voting shares in News Corp. But the Wendi Deng-Rupert Murdoch divorce is not likely to affect the splitting of News Corp. into two entities.
  June 15, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• Cramer: This Break-Up Creating Immense Value
  Jim Cramer believes this company is about to create immense value with the stroke of a pen. "And all they're doing is simply splitting into smaller, cleaner, more easily understood pieces," he said.
  June 14, 2013 - CNBC

Quotes

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• President Bush in New York Times
  The prime minister made clear that splitting his country into parts, as some have suggested, is not what the Iraqi people want, and that any partition in Iraq would only lead to an increase of sectarian violence,Mr. Bush said, adding, "I agree."
• Hu Jintao in Reuters UK
  Our conflict with the Dalai clique is not an ethnic problem, not a religious problem, nor a human rights problem,Hu said. "It is a problem of either preserving national unity or splitting the motherland."
• Judi Dench in BBC News
  I'm disappointed - almost heartbroken - because we made some progress toward getting to this new framework, but the political wheeling and dealing and compromising and splitting the baby has resulted in a circumstance that, you know, we just didn't... Jeff Sessions http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHAivSdQCQbZUEJe-KHDM03kCSI8w Guardian Unlimited http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6650648,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHwwQXYZaDp0I_zYswMm15Ww4vL_A May 21, 2007 93355 124116 splodge In an enduring romance, Dame Judi called her husband my great Irish splodge", while he sent her a red rose every Friday throughout their 30-year marriage.