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carve up
verb
- to cut (something) into pieces
- to divide or dismember (a country, land, etc)
noun
- informal.an act or instance of dishonestly prearranging the result of a competition
- slang.the distribution of something, as of booty
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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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