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All compartmentalise synonyms

com·part·men·tal·ize
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verb compartmentalise

  • isolate — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
  • segregate — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
  • break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
  • cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
  • insulate — to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound: to insulate an electric wire with a rubber sheath; to insulate a coat with down.
  • assign — If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
  • classify — To classify things means to divide them into groups or types so that things with similar characteristics are in the same group.
  • comb — A comb is a flat piece of plastic or metal with narrow pointed teeth along one side, which you use to tidy your hair.
  • compartment — A compartment is one of the separate spaces into which a railway carriage is divided.
  • discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
  • distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
  • interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • intervene — to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
  • island — a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
  • order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
  • seclude — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
  • sequester — to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
  • sift — to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
  • sort — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
  • space — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
  • winnow — to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities.
  • single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
  • split up — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
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