Sekirov Dictionary

split up

adjective 2
verb 2
split-up noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

Divided or separated.
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(slang, no longer used) Of a person: having long legs.
- He should preferably be tall, weighty, well split up in the legs (especially from the hip-joint to the knee), neatly turned at the knee and ankle joints […] — 1913

verb2

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Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
- After she left to go travelling, my girlfriend and I split up.
- The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building.
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separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
- The brothers never behaved in class when they were together, so we had to split them up for the exam.

split-up noun1

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A break-up.
- My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order:[…] — 1995

forms

splitting up · splits up · split-ups

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