| deflate | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. deflate | collapse by releasing contained air or gas.; "deflate a balloon" |
| ~ collapse | fold or close up.; "fold up your umbrella"; "collapse the music stand" |
| v. (contact) | 2. deflate | release contained air or gas from.; "deflate the air mattress" |
| ~ release, turn | let (something) fall or spill from a container.; "turn the flour onto a plate" |
| v. (communication) | 3. deflate, puncture | reduce or lessen the size or importance of.; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence" |
| ~ depreciate, vilipend, deprecate | belittle.; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts" |
| v. (change) | 4. deflate | produce deflation in.; "The new measures deflated the economy" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (change) | 5. deflate | reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices.; "deflate the currency" |
| ~ cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down, cut, cut back, trim, bring down | cut down on; make a reduction in.; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
| v. (change) | 6. deflate | become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air.; "The balloons deflated" |
| ~ decrease, diminish, lessen, fall | decrease in size, extent, or range.; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" |
| split | | |
| n. (act) | 1. split | extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back). |
| ~ acrobatic feat, acrobatic stunt | a stunt performed by an acrobat. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. split | a bottle containing half the usual amount. |
| ~ bottleful, bottle | the quantity contained in a bottle. |
| n. (possession) | 3. split | a promised or claimed share of loot or money.; "he demanded his split before they disbanded" |
| ~ share, percentage, portion, part | assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group.; "he wanted his share in cash" |
| n. (object) | 4. split | a lengthwise crack in wood.; "he inserted the wedge into a split in the log" |
| ~ crack, scissure, cleft, crevice, fissure | a long narrow opening. |
| n. (object) | 5. rent, rip, snag, split, tear | an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" |
| ~ opening, gap | an open or empty space in or between things.; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall" |
| n. (location) | 6. split | an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea. |
| ~ city, metropolis, urban center | a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts.; "Ancient Troy was a great city" |
| ~ croatia, hrvatska, republic of croatia | a republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991. |
| n. (food) | 7. split | a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts. |
| ~ frozen dessert | any of various desserts prepared by freezing. |
| ~ banana split | a banana split lengthwise and topped with scoops of ice cream and sauces and nuts and whipped cream. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. split | (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl.; "he was winning until he got a split in the tenth frame" |
| ~ tenpin bowling, tenpins | bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins. |
| ~ formation | a particular spatial arrangement. |
| n. (act) | 9. split, split up, stock split | an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity.; "they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock" |
| ~ step-up, increase | the act of increasing something.; "he gave me an increase in salary" |
| n. (act) | 10. rent, rip, split | the act of rending or ripping or splitting something.; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" |
| ~ tear | the act of tearing.; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear" |
| n. (act) | 11. schism, split | division of a group into opposing factions.; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy" |
| ~ division | the act or process of dividing. |
| v. (social) | 12. carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split, split up | separate into parts or portions.; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ subdivide | divide into smaller and smaller pieces.; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!" |
| ~ initialise, initialize, format | divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data.; "Please format this disk before entering data!" |
| ~ sectionalise, sectionalize | divide into sections, especially into geographic sections.; "sectionalize a country" |
| ~ triangulate | divide into triangles or give a triangular form to.; "triangulate the piece of cardboard" |
| ~ unitise, unitize | divide (bulk material) and process as units. |
| ~ lot | divide into lots, as of land, for example. |
| ~ parcel | divide into parts.; "The developers parceled the land" |
| ~ sliver, splinter | divide into slivers or splinters. |
| ~ paragraph | divide into paragraphs, as of text.; "This story is well paragraphed" |
| ~ canton | divide into cantons, of a country. |
| ~ balkanise, balkanize | divide a territory into small, hostile states. |
| v. (contact) | 13. cleave, rive, split | separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.; "cleave the bone" |
| ~ maul | split (wood) with a maul and wedges. |
| ~ laminate | split (wood) into thin sheets. |
| ~ tear | to separate or be separated by force.; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars" |
| ~ cleave | make by cutting into.; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock" |
| v. (social) | 14. break, break up, part, separate, split, split up | discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up" |
| ~ give the bounce, give the gate, give the axe | terminate a relationship abruptly.; "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman" |
| ~ disunify, break apart | break up or separate.; "The country is disunifying"; "Yugoslavia broke apart after 1989" |
| ~ disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce | part; cease or break association with.; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" |
| ~ break with | end a relationship.; "China broke with Russia" |
| ~ split up, divorce | get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage.; "The couple divorced after only 6 months" |
| ~ secede, splinter, break away | withdraw from an organization or communion.; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away" |
| ~ break away, break | interrupt a continued activity.; "She had broken with the traditional patterns" |
| v. (motion) | 15. part, separate, split | go one's own way; move apart.; "The friends separated after the party" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ dissipate, scatter, disperse, spread out | move away from each other.; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached" |
| ~ break up | come apart.; "the group broke up" |
| ~ diffract | undergo diffraction.; "laser light diffracts electrons" |
| v. (change) | 16. break open, burst, split | come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure.; "The bubble burst" |
| ~ pop | burst open with a sharp, explosive sound.; "The balloon popped"; "This popcorn pops quickly in the microwave oven" |
| ~ blow | burst suddenly.; "The tire blew"; "We blew a tire" |
| ~ stave, stave in | burst or force (a hole) into something. |
| ~ come apart, break, fall apart, split up, separate | become separated into pieces or fragments.; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart" |
| adj. | 17. disconnected, disunited, fragmented, split | having been divided; having the unity destroyed.; "Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of disconnected local forces"; "a league of disunited nations"; "a fragmented coalition"; "a split group" |
| ~ divided | separated into parts or pieces.; "opinions are divided" |
| adj. | 18. split | (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain.; "we bought split logs for the fireplace" |
| ~ cut | separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument.; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists" |
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