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Noun divide has 2 senses
- divide - a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
--1 is a kind of disagreement, dissension, dissonance
- watershed, water parting, divide - a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
--2 is a kind of line
--2 has particulars: continental divide; Great Divide
Verb divide has 6 senses
- divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
--1 is one way to change integrity
Antonyms: unite, unify
Sample sentences:
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- divide, fraction - perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
--2 is one way to calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
Antonyms: multiply
Sample sentences:
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=> Somebody ----s something
- separate, divide - act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- separate, divide, part - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
--4 is one way to change
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- separate, divide - make a division or separation
Sample sentences:
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- separate, disunite, divide, part - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
--6 is one way to move, displace
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Something ----s somebody
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Somebody ----s something from somebody
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