divide up

verb

divide up

verb

1

To divide, particularly into separate shares for distribution.

divide up the cake into 5 equal parts
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.2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club:

Synonyms: divide
Derived terms: divvy up, divy up

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