halved

verb

past tense of halve
as in divided

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halved
  1. divided
  2. quartered
  3. split
  4. bisected
  5. cleaved
  6. dissected
  7. separated
  8. severed
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  • Congressional Republicans were divided over the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision to strike down an executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
    — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 30 June 2026
  • Countless individual tread blocks, divided by wide grooves, wriggled around instead of digging in.
    — Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of divided
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  • The biggest games, the greatest stages, have been quartered off by a velvet rope.
    — Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • This side of deeply roasted, tender sweet potatoes comes quartered and seasoned with GK’s take on togarashi.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of quartered
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  • The result is uncommon room layouts like the tri-suite king room equipped with two twin-sized beds and a king bed split by a privacy divider that doubles as a playful art installation.
    — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Cutright, who was not charged with murder, split from Devastating Pyrotechnics to form Blackstar Fireworks on the property in 2023.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of split
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  • The car had to be redesigned to accommodate the new structure, which is dominated by large glass panels and bisected by a central strip that runs from the windshield to the rear of the car.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 June 2026
  • Wind Creek Chicago Southland Casino, Hotel and Spa is located adjacent to the mammoth Thornton Quarry, a south suburban landmark bisected by Interstate 294.
    — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
Definition of bisected
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  • In 1865, more than eight decades after Elizabeth Freeman defeated slavery in Massachusetts, the practice was finally abolished throughout the United States, though only after a civil war that cleaved the young nation and cost more than 600,000 lives.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 22 June 2026
  • For years, Seattle’s waterfront was isolated and written off as a tourist trap thanks to a double-decker highway that cleaved it from the rest of the city.
    — Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 May 2026
Definition of cleaved
Verb
  • From the frantic frenzy surrounding royal nuptials to the way the internet dissected every possible clue from Zendaya and Tom Holland before they were revealed to have officially tied the knot, weddings like these are a cultural event.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 3 July 2026
  • Streaming numbers are in their relative infancy and TV ratings are now dissected with multiplatform caveats.
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
Definition of dissected
Verb
  • Faster clinical brain imaging The new design removes one of the biggest bottlenecks in conventional computer architecture, where memory and processors are physically separated.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
  • Instead, Hargitay learned at age 30 that her bio-dad was Italian entertainer Nelson Sardelli — Giovanna Sardelli’s father — with whom Mansfield had a brief relationship while separated from Mickey Hargitay in the early 1960s.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 6 July 2026
Definition of separated
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  • The film spans eight decades of Singapore’s history, following two childhood friends – gifted violinists Fei and Kai – whose lives are severed by the Japanese occupation of the 1940s.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 June 2026
  • The launch comes more than three years after Adult Swim severed ties with Roiland following felony domestic abuse charges that were later dismissed.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
Definition of severed
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