split
/splɪt/ verb B2- To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. · He has split his lip.
- Of something solid, particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- To share; to divide. · We split the money among three people.
- To leave. · Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
- To separate. · Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.
- To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord. · Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.
- To factor into linear factors.
- To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
He/she/it splits · Past split · Past participle split · -ing form splitting
Verb forms
- Base form
- split
- He/she/it
- splits
- Past
- split
- Past participle
- split
- -ing form
- splitting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Albert de Morcerf,” said Beauchamp, rising in his turn, “I cannot throw you out of window for three weeks—that is to say, for twenty-four days to come—nor have you any right to split my skull open till that time has elapsed.
She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.
THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk.
Anne sighed and betook herself to the back yard, over which a young new moon was shining through the leafless poplar boughs from an apple-green western sky, and where Matthew was splitting wood.
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