I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ big , deep , great , sharp
▪ growing
▪ north-south , etc.
▪ class , cultural , economic , ethnic , gender , generational , ideological , political , racial , religious , sectarian , social
▪ partisan ( esp. AmE ), party
▪ digital
▪
the digital ~ between people with access to technology and those without
VERB + DIVIDE
▪ create
▪ widen
▪
policies which have widened the ~ between rich and poor
▪ close , narrow
▪ bridge , cross , straddle
▪
advice on bridging cultural ~s
▪
It's a friendship which crosses the ~ of social class.
▪
a style which straddles the ~ between classic and modern
▪ address
▪
attempts to address the racial ~ in this country
DIVIDE + VERB
▪ widen
▪ narrow
▪ open , open up
▪ separate sth
▪
a ~ separating those who have access to computers and those who don't
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ between
▪
the sharp ~ between rich and poor regions
▪ ~ in
▪
The leader's speech aimed to close the embarrassing ~ in party ranks.
II.
verb
1 separate into parts
ADVERB
▪ broadly , roughly
▪
This report is ~d broadly into two parts.
▪ exactly
▪ clearly
▪ conveniently , neatly
▪
Vegetarians ~ neatly into two groups.
▪ evenly
▪ arbitrarily , randomly
▪
They were randomly ~d into three groups.
PREPOSITION
▪ into
▪
The children ~d into three teams.
PHRASES
▪ ~ in two
▪
the point where the river ~s in two
2 share
ADVERB
▪ equally
PREPOSITION
▪ among
▪
The money was ~d equally among his sons.
▪ between
▪
They ~d their time between London and Boston.
3 cause disagreement
ADVERB
▪ bitterly , deeply , seriously , sharply
▪
This issue has bitterly ~d the community.
▪ increasingly
▪ closely , evenly
▪ ethnically , politically , racially
▪
The fragile peace has deteriorated in this ethnically ~d city.
PHRASES
▪ be ~d about sth , be ~d on sth , be ~d over sth
▪
Board members were deeply ~d on the issue.
Divide is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ cell , ↑ gulf , ↑ line , ↑ partition , ↑ path , ↑ watershed
Divide is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ booty , ↑ country , ↑ electorate , ↑ nation , ↑ number , ↑ spoils , ↑ vote , ↑ world