divide up

English

Verb

divide up (third-person singular simple present divides up, present participle dividing up, simple past and past participle divided up)

1. (transitive) To divide, particularly into separate shares for distribution.

   divide up the cake into 5 equal parts

   • 2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     Grace and her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lost their mother during birth, and their alcoholic father during their hardscrabble childhood. The pair are divided up by social services, Grace sent to one side of the continent, Gilbert to the other.

Synonyms

• See divide

Derived terms

• divvy up, divy up

Anagrams

• divied up