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verb
To terminate a relationship or an association by or as if by leaving one another
Synonyms: parting
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verb
Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
Synonyms: parting, splitting, dividing, severing, divorcing, distributing, disuniting, undoing, withdrawing, winnowing, unravelling, uncoupling, threshing, stripping, disjoining, spacing, sorting, singling, sifting, breaking, sequestering, segregating, segmenting, seceding, scattering, rending, removing, ramifying, partitioning, detaching, isolating, insulating, freeing, fragmenting, extricating, excluding, estranging, eliminating, diverging, distinguishing, dissolving, dissociating, disjointing, dissipating, dissevering, dissecting, dispersing, dismembering, dislodging, dislocating, disintegrating, disengaging, discriminating, disconnecting, discharging, disassociating, demarcating, decomposing, culling, cleaving, bifurcating, assorting, alienating, abstracting
Antonyms: uniting
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verb
To release from military duty
Synonyms: discharging, demobilizing
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verb
Separate into parts or portions
Synonyms: sorting, classifying, grouping, classing, dissevering, distributing, pigeonholing, assigning, splitting, assorting, categorizing, dividing
Antonyms: uniting, mixing, joining, desegregating
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verb
Force, take, or pull apart
Synonyms: sequestering, parting, segregating, secluding, intervening, isolating, insulating, dividing, disuniting
Antonyms: mixing, joining, uniting, combining
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verb
Treat differently on the basis of sex or race
Synonyms: telling, distinguishing, discriminating, knowing, differentiating, discerning
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verb
Make a division or separation
Synonyms: dissevering, departing, segmenting, dividing, sectioning, partitioning, parting
Antonyms: marrying, merging, converging
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verb
To set apart (one kind or type) from others
Synonyms: winnowing, sorting, sifting
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verb
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
Synonyms: forking, ramifying, branching
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verb
Become separated into pieces or fragments
Synonyms: breaking