carve up

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carve up - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  carve up
      v 1: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into
           three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman
           Empire after World War I" [syn: divide, split, split up
           , separate, dissever, carve up] [ant: unify,
           unite]