splitverb
uk/splɪt/us/splɪt/present participle splitting, past tense and past participle splitsplit verb (DIVIDE)
B2 [ I or T ] to (cause to) divide into two or more parts, especially along a particular line:
C2 [ I ] to form cracks:
C2 [ I or T ] If the people in an organization or group split, or if something splits them, they disagree and form smaller groups:
If you split the difference, you agree on a number or amount that is exactly in the middle of the difference between two other numbers or amounts.
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- Opinions were split cleanly between men and women.
- The electronics division was split off into a freestanding company.
- Let's split the cost right down the middle.
- The family is split down the middle on this issue.
- Pieces of stone can be split off by forcing wedges between the layers.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Separating and dividing
- atomize
- bifurcate
- bifurcation
- bisect
- borderline
- breakdown
- disestablish
- dismember
- dissociate
- dissociate yourself from sth
- disunite
- divide
- drift
- pull sth/sb apart
- quarter
- ravel
- resolve
- resolve sth into sth
- rive
- tear 1
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split verb (TELL)
[ I ] UK old-fashioned informal to tell other people secret and damaging information about someone:
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Revealing secrets & becoming known
- (the) word is/gets out idiom
- bare
- be the talk of the town idiom
- break cover idiom
- cat
- dob sb in
- emerge
- fink
- get around (somewhere)
- give sth away
- King's evidence
- leak
- let the cat out of the bag idiom
- open your heart to someone idiom
- sneak
- spill the beans idiom
- tell on sb
- tongues wagging idiom
- turn
- unmask
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split verb (LEAVE)
[ I ] old-fashioned informal to leave a place
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Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- walk off (somewhere)
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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Idiom(s)
Phrasal verb(s)
splitnoun [ C ]
uk/splɪt/us/splɪt/a long, thin hole in something where it has broken apart:
a situation in which a group of people is divided into smaller groups because they disagree about something:
the action of sitting on the floor with your legs straight out and flat along the floor in opposite directions:
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Holes, hollows and dips
- aperture
- cleft
- cranny
- dent
- depression
- dint
- dip
- donga
- eyehole
- intake
- orifice
- perforation
- piercing
- pinhole
- porosity
- porous
- puncture
- riddled
- tear 1
- wormhole
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