| 单词 | carve up |
| 释义 | carve up (once / 28412 pages) v WORD FAMILY carve up: carved up, carves up, carving up USAGE EXAMPLESThe men, both artists, lived in a former National Guard armory that was carved up into apartments. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) But experts warn against “Yalta II” — a new Russian-American attempt to designate “spheres of influence” that would carve up the region. Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) Ideally, Putin would like a new version of the 1945 Yalta treaty, in which the US, Soviet Union and Britain carved up post-second-world-war Europe. The Guardian(Nov 20, 2016) v separate into parts or portions The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper dissever, divide, divvy, separate, split, split up unify, unite act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief subdivide divide into smaller and smaller pieces format, initialise, initializedivide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data sectionalise, sectionalizedivide into sections, especially into geographic sections triangulatedivide into triangles or give a triangular form to unitise, unitizedivide (bulk material) and process as units lotdivide into lots, as of land, for example parceldivide into parts sliver, splinterdivide into slivers or splinters paragraphdivide into paragraphs, as of text cantondivide into cantons, of a country Balkanise, Balkanizedivide a territory into small, hostile states change integrity change in physical make-up |
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