divide

Noun

• a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

• a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)

Verb

• force, take, or pull apart
  • He separated the fighting children
    
  • Moses parted the Red Sea
    

• make a division or separation

• come apart
  • The two pieces that we had glued separated
    

• act as a barrier between; stand between
  • The mountain range divides the two countries
    

• perform a division
  • Can you divide 49 by seven?
    

• separate into parts or portions
  • divide the cake into three equal parts
    
  • The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  watershed , water parting , separate , disunite , part , fraction , split , split up , dissever , carve up
• Antonyms: 
  multiply , unite , unify