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Definition of halving : of Halve

Synonyms:

fissuring, branching, forking, slitting, tearing, bifurcating

disconnecting, uncoupling, alienating, detaching, severing, dividing, fragmenting, disjoining, rupturing, dissociating, segregating, disassociating, divorcing, disengaging, breaking, insulating, excising, partitioning, rending, separating, parting, dismantling, splitting, cleaving, disuniting, sundering

disassembling, bisecting, paring, incising, cutting, axing, ripping, estranging, slicing, unfixing, ungluing, unhinging, disaffiliating, dissecting, disintegrating, amputating, removing

budgeting, allowing, measuring, compartmentalizing, piecing, parceling, subdividing, portioning, apportioning, chunking, segmenting, zoning, allotting, dismembering, sharing

Usage examples:

• Halving there would mean a drawn match between us and a drawing for choice of prizes, provided we were in the prize- winning class. - "Kent Knowles: Quahaug", Joseph C. Lincoln.
• I'm just as generous as you are when it comes to halving holes with an easy mark. - "Fore!", Charles Emmett Van Loan.
• But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast, thus more than halving the distance by rail from school house to home, I might spend as pocket money the railway fare I thus saved. - "Father and Son", Edmund Gosse.