split
verb
[ splɪt ]
• break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain.
• "the ice cracked and split"
Similar:
break,
chop,
cut,
hew,
lop,
cleave,
snap,
crack,
bust,
break apart,
fracture,
rupture,
fissure,
come apart,
splinter,
• (with reference to a group of people) divide into two or more groups.
• "let's split up and find the other two"
• (of one's head) suffer great pain from a headache.
• "my head is splitting"
• betray the secrets of or inform on someone.
• "I told him I wouldn't split on him"
Similar:
inform on/against,
tell tales on,
give away,
sell out,
stab in the back,
tell on,
squeal on,
blow the whistle on,
rat on,
peach on,
sell down the river,
grass on,
shop,
stitch up,
do the dirty on,
rat out,
drop a/the dime on,
finger,
pimp on,
pool,
put someone's pot on,
• leave a place, especially suddenly.
• "‘Let's split,’ Harvey said"
Similar:
leave,
depart,
go,
go away,
go off,
take one's leave,
take oneself off,
withdraw,
absent oneself,
say one's goodbyes,
quit,
make an exit,
exit,
break camp,
decamp,
retreat,
beat a retreat,
retire,
make off,
clear out,
make oneself scarce,
run off,
run away,
flee,
fly,
bolt,
set off,
set out,
start out,
get going,
get under way,
be on one's way,
make tracks,
up sticks,
pack one's bags,
shove off,
push off,
clear off,
take off,
skedaddle,
scram,
scoot,
flit,
sling one's hook,
vamoose,
hightail it,
cut out,
repair,
remove,
betake oneself,
abstract oneself,
split
noun
• a tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain.
• "splits appeared in the decaying planks"
Similar:
crack,
fissure,
cleft,
crevice,
break,
fracture,
breach,
rip,
tear,
cut,
rent,
slash,
slit,
• (in gymnastics and dance) an act of leaping in the air or sitting down with the legs straight and at right angles to the body, one in front and the other behind, or one at each side.
• "I could never do the splits before"
• a thing that is divided or split.
• the time taken to complete a recognized part of a race, or the point in the race where such a time is measured.
Origin:
late 16th century (originally in the sense ‘break up a ship’, describing the force of a storm or rock): from Middle Dutch splitten, of unknown ultimate origin.
