split up
phrasal verbsplit up (with somebody)
- to stop having a relationship with somebody
- My parents split up last year.
- She's split up with her boyfriend.
- The rock group split up last year.
split somebody up
- to make two people stop having a relationship with each other
- My friend is doing her best to split us up.
split somebody up | split up
- to divide a group of people into smaller parts; to become divided up in this way
- We were split up into groups to discuss the question.
- Let's split up now and meet again at lunchtime.
split something up
- to divide something into smaller parts
- The day was split up into 6 one-hour sessions.