| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. That which is allotted: allocation, allotment, allowance, dole, lot, measure, part, portion, quantum, quota, ration, share. Informal : cut. Slang : divvy. See COLLECT. 2. An interruption in friendly relations: alienation, breach, break, disaffection, estrangement, fissure, rent2, rift, rupture, schism. See ASSEMBLE, HELP. 3. A usually narrow partial opening caused by splitting and rupture: break, chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, rift. See OPEN. 4. The result of cutting: cut, gash, incision, slash, slice, slit. See ENTER, HELP. 5. The act or an instance of separating one thing from another: detachment, disjunction, disjuncture, disseverance, disseverment, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, parting, partition, separation, severance. See ASSEMBLE, PART. | | VERB: | 1. To undergo partial breaking: crack, fissure, fracture, rupture. See HELP. 2. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument: carve, cleave1, cut, dissever, sever, slice, slit. See ASSEMBLE. 3. To become or cause to become apart one from another. Also used with up: break, detach, disjoin, disjoint, disunite, divide, divorce, part, separate. Idioms: part company, set at odds. See ASSEMBLE. 4. Slang. To move or proceed away from a place: depart, exit, get away, get off, go, go away, leave1, pull out, quit, retire, run (along), withdraw. Informal : cut out, push off, shove off. Slang : blow1, take off. Idioms: hit the road, take leave. See APPROACH. 5. Informal. To break away or withdraw from membership in an association or a federation: secede, splinter (off). See PARTICIPATE, POLITICS. 6. Informal. To terminate a relationship or an association by or as if by leaving one another. Also used with up: break off, break up, part, separate. Idioms: call it quits, come to a parting of the ways, part company. See ASSEMBLE, CONTINUE. 7. To separate or pull apart by force: rend, rip, rive, run, tear1. See ASSEMBLE, HELP.
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