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halve

  [hav, hahv]
–verb (used with object), halved, halv⋅ing.
1. to divide into two equal parts.
2. to share equally: to halve one's rations with a stranger.
3. to reduce to half.
4. Golf. to play (a hole, round, or match) in the same number of strokes as one's opponent.
—Idiom
5. halve together, to join (two pieces of wood) by cutting from one, at the place of joining, a portion fitting to that left solid in the other.
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Origin:
1250–1300; ME halven, deriv. of half
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halve   (hāv, häv)   
tr.v.   halved, halv·ing, halves

  1. To divide (something) into two equal portions or parts.

  2. To lessen or reduce by half: halved the recipe to serve two.

  3. Informal To share (something) equally: The twins halve everything.

  4. Sports To play (a golf game or hole) using the same number of strokes as one's opponent.


[Middle English halven, from half, half; see half.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

halve 
M.E. halfen "to divide in halves," c.1300 (see half).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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