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Split up
adj, verb, slang
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Adjective
- 1 Divided or separated. not-comparable
- 2 Of a person: having long legs. not-comparable, obsolete, slang
"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 […]"
Noun
- 1 an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity wordnet
Verb
- 1 Cease to be together, break apart from the group. idiomatic, intransitive
"After she left to go travelling, my girlfriend and I split up."
- 2 become separated into pieces or fragments wordnet
- 3 separate, disassociate, cause to come apart. transitive
"The brothers never behaved in class when they were together, so we had to split them up for the exam."
- 4 discontinue an association or relation; go different ways wordnet
- 5 separate into parts or portions wordnet
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- 6 get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage wordnet
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