compartmentalize
To separate something into different categories, or compartmentsTo separate something into different categories, or compartments.
Recorded US: Speaker: Neøn Recorder: Neøn, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
» You have a bad habit of wanting to compartmentalize things.
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Examples
4 sentencesYou have a bad habit of wanting to compartmentalize things.
If you work on compartmentalizing, your emotions will be a lot easier to handle.
With remote work, it's even harder to compartmentalize your work and your personal life.
Meaning
1 sensesTo separate something into different categories, or compartments.
aufgliedern, unterteilen
separate into isolated compartments or categories
Forms
compartmentalizes, compartmentalizing, compartmentalized, compartmentalizedregular · Lesson
| Base form | compartmentalize · to compartmentalize |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | compartmentalizes |
| Present participle | compartmentalizing |
| Past simple | compartmentalized |
| Past participle | compartmentalized |
Tenses
compartmentalize · compartmentalized · will compartmentalize · have compartmentalizedPoint at a form to see it in a sentence.Tap a form to see it in a sentence.
Synonyms
2 synonyms- separate into isolated compartments or categories:compartmentalisecut up
Word family
10 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.