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compartmentalizes

verb , present tense third-person singular of compartmentalize

Synonyms and Antonyms of compartmentalizes

to arrange or assign according to type

we shouldn't compartmentalize the students into such restrictive categories as scholar and athlete, which are not mutually exclusive

Synonyms of compartmentalizes

assorts, breaks down, categorizes, classes, classifies, codifies, compartments, digests, distinguishes, distributes, grades, groups, pegs, places, ranges, ranks, relegates, separates, sorts, types

Words Related to compartmentalizes

arrays, disposes, draws up, marshals (also marshalls), orders, organizes, systematizes

alphabetizes, catalogs (or catalogues), files, indexes, lists, refers

pigeonholes, shelves

identifies, recognizes

culls, screens, sets, sieves, sifts, winnows

clumps, clusters, colligates

recategorizes, reclassifies, regroups

Near Antonyms of compartmentalizes

confuses, disarranges, jumbles, lumps, mixes (up), scrambles

misclassifies, missorts, mistypes

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