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Synonyms and Antonyms of separating
- we tried to separate the gluey pages, but they were stuck tight
breaking down, decomposing, disassembling, disintegrating, dissolving
bifurcating, bisecting, cleaving, dichotomizing, dissecting, fractionalizing, fractionating, halving, partitioning, quartering, segmenting, subdividing, trisecting
fragmentating, fragmenting, fragmentizing
breaking, fracturing, pulling, rending, rifting, ripping, riving, rupturing, tearing
cutting off, insulating, isolating, secluding, segregating, sequestering
detaching, disengaging, disentangling, unraveling, untying (or untieing)
- the searchers separated in order to cover more ground
- separate the students by reading ability
arraying, disposing, drawing up, marshaling (or marshalling), ordering, organizing, systematizing
alphabetizing, cataloging (or cataloguing), filing, indexing, listing, referring
culling, screening, setting, sieving, sifting, winnowing
clumping, clustering, colligating
- separated the injured calf from the herd
- trying to separate science from religion on one specific point
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