carve up

carve up

vb (tr, adverb)

1. to cut (something) into pieces

2. to divide or dismember (a country, land, etc.)

n carve-up

1. Informal an act or instance of dishonestly prearranging the result of a competition

2. Slang the distribution of something, as of booty

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

carve up - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" dissever, divide, split, split up, separate change integrity - change in physical make-up subdivide - divide into smaller and smaller pieces; "This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!" initialise, initialize, format - divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data; "Please format this disk before entering data!" sectionalise, sectionalize - divide into sections, especially into geographic sections; "sectionalize a country" triangulate - divide into triangles or give a triangular form to; "triangulate the piece of cardboard" unitise, unitize - divide (bulk material) and process as units lot - divide into lots, as of land, for example parcel - divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land" sliver, splinter - divide into slivers or splinters paragraph - divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed" canton - divide into cantons, of a country Balkanise, Balkanize - divide a territory into small, hostile states

Translations

? carve up

vt sep

meat → aufschneiden; (surgeon) → aufschneiden; body → zerstückeln

(fig) inheritance → verteilen; country → aufteilen, zerstückeln; area of town etc → zerreißen, auseinanderreißen

(inf, with knife) person → (mit dem Messer) böse zurichten (inf); to carve up somebody’s face → jdm das Gesicht zerfetzen

(inf, driver) → schneiden