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split up

split up verb: cease to be together, break apart from the group.

Verb

split up (third-person singular simple present splits up, present participle splitting up, simple past and past participle split up)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
    • After she left to go travelling, my girlfriend and I split up.
    • The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building.
  2. (transitive) separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
    • The brothers never behaved in class when they were together, so we had to split them up for the exam.

Adjective

split up (not comparable)

  1. Divided or separated.
  2. (obsolete, slang) Of a person: having long legs.
    • He should preferably be tall, weighty, well split up in the legs (especially from the hip-joint to the knee), neatly turned at the knee and ankle joints […]1913, S. A. Mussabini, Charles Ranson, The Complete Athletic Trainer, page 17

split up meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Odia

split up in Tamil

ஓடு

split up in Malayalam

to split up or break up ending a friendship over disagreements
തെറ്റുക teṟṟuka

split up in Kannada

ಸಂಬಂಧವನ್ನು ಒಡೆಯು, ಮದುವೆಯನ್ನು ಕೊನೆಗಾಣಿಸು, ವಿಚ್ಛೇದಿಸು, ವಿಭಾಗಿಸು, ವಿಭಜಿಸು

split up in Odia

to split up
ଫାଟିବା phāṭibā
to split up; rend
ଚିରିବା ciribā

Forms of split up

third-person singular presentsplits up
present participlesplitting up
past participlesplit up
pastsplit up

Questions about split up

What does split up mean?
Split up means cease to be together, break apart from the group.
What is split up in Tamil?
Split up in Tamil is ஓடு. See Split up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is split up?
Split up can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of split up?
The past tense of split up is split up.

Words near split up in the dictionary

  1. split the G
  2. split the house
  3. split the sheets
  4. split ticket
  5. split tickets
  6. split up
  7. split wheel
  8. split wheels
  9. split wine bottle
  10. split wine bottles
  11. split-complex number

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: split up (page history and authors); split up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); തെറ്റുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); split up (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଚିରିବା (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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