COMPARTMENTALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compartmentalise mean? 

• COMPARTMENTALISE (verb)
  The verb COMPARTMENTALISE has 1 sense:

1. separate into isolated compartments or categories

  Familiarity information: COMPARTMENTALISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPARTMENTALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they compartmentalise    ... he / she / it compartmentalises   
Past simple: compartmentalised   
Past participle: compartmentalised   
-ing form: compartmentalising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Separate into isolated compartments or categories

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

compartmentalise; compartmentalize; cut up

Context example:

You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!

Hypernyms (to "compartmentalise" is one way to...):

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)

compartment (a space into which an area is subdivided)

compartmentalisation (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)

compartmentalisation (a mild state of dissociation)