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View synonyms for carve up

carve up

verb

  1. to cut (something) into pieces
  2. to divide or dismember (a country, land, etc)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. informal.
    an act or instance of dishonestly prearranging the result of a competition
  2. slang.
    the distribution of something, as of booty
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Her new paradigm leads her to carve up shibboleths and heroes alike.

I hate to carve up a book into parcels, to evaluate art with that crass finality of the food critic judging course after course.

If we know the longest and shortest days, we can carve up the year into months based on the seasons.

Romney and Ron Paul will have Virginia to carve up between themselves because Newt and Santorum failed to make the ballot.

Smooth swung on the officer, ready in his present state of feeling to carve up one or a dozen.

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