splitting up

Going separate ways

Splitting up is separating or dividing into parts.

A couple splitting up ends their relationship: They're splitting up after ten years.

A group splits up to cover more ground.

You can split up tasks among team members or split up a large file into smaller pieces.

The phrase emphasizes the dispersal or dissolution that follows the split.

Related

separation · severance · detachment · conscious uncoupling · dissolution · estrangement · disunion · divorce · irreconcilable differences · trial separation · growing apart · rupture · cutting ties · division · disconnect · scattering · dismantling · goodbye

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Opposites
physical division

splitting upjoining

Linking into one

combining · merging · fusing · unifying · putting together

group dispersion

splitting upgathering

Collection of people meeting

coming together · assembling · regrouping · convening · congregating

Family

split, splitting, splits, splitter, split up, unsplit, splitters, split-up, splittable

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G