Definition of "split up" []

• Cease to be together, break apart from the group. (verb)
• Separate, disassociate, cause to come apart. (verb)

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• "No grower of grain was approached, for Caesar Octavianus planned to see a great increase in locally grown grain once these latifundia were split up as allotments for veterans."
• "After you left, and we got out of South Place okay, we split up for a while."
• "Around the time of the Cole bombing, the al-Qaeda leader evacuated everyone from his compound at Kandahar airport and split up from his senior advisers Mohammed Atef and Ayman al-Zawahiri so that all three would not be killed together in the event of a retaliatory American strike."