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split someone or something up (into something)

to divide people or things up into something, such as groups. I had to split the group up into two sections—there were so many who showed up. I split up the class into two discussion sections.

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The Russians, on the contrary, ought according to tactics to have attacked in mass, but in fact they split up into small units, because their spirit had so risen that separate individuals, without orders, dealt blows at the French without needing any compulsion to induce them to expose themselves to hardships and dangers. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context We was split up into three factions--one wanted the east site and one the south, and one held to the old. Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context Behind the fog there was the flowing of water, the cracking and floating of ice, the swift rush of turbid, foaming torrents; and on the following Monday, in the evening, the fog parted, the storm clouds split up into little curling crests of cloud, the sky cleared, and the real spring had come. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context			spite splash splash about splash down splash on splash over splash up splash with splatter up splay out splice splice to splice together splinter off split split a gut split between split hairs split in split into split off split people up split second split sides split the difference split up split with splitting headache splurge on spoil spoil rotten spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar spoiled rotten spoiling for a fight spoke spoken spoken for sponge sponge away sponge down sponge from sponge off of sponge up spook spoon spoon out spoon up spoon-feed sport sport of kings sport with			Split Stocks Split stroke split strokes Split stuff Split stuff Split supercilium Split supercilium Split supercilium Split switch Split Symbol Moments Estimator Split System Breaker Split the Difference split the ticket split the ticket split the ticket split the ticket split the ticket split thickness graft Split Thickness Skin Excision Split Thickness Skin Graft split ticket split tin split tongue split tongue split tongue split tongue split tongue Split Training Option split transducer Split Unit Training Assembly split up Split Up Value Split Up Values Split Ups Split Ups Split Ups Split Vector Quantization split vertical photography split vertical photography Split Volume Moving Average Split vote Split vote Split vote Split vote Split vote split web split web split web split web Split wheel split wings split with Split Working Channel Access Split, Croatia Split, Croatia Split, Croatia Split, Croatia Split, Croatia Split, Croatia Split, Yugoslavia Split, Yugoslavia

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