(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
A ~ is a wall or screen that separates one part of a room or vehicle from another.
...new offices divided only by glass ~s...
N-COUNT
2.
If you ~ a room, you separate one part of it from another by means of a ~.
Bedrooms have again been created by ~ing a single larger room...
He sat on the two-seater sofa in the ~ed office.
VERB: V n, V-ed
3.
If a country is ~ed, it is divided into two or more independent countries.
Korea was ~ed in 1945...
Britain was accused of trying to ~ the country ‘because of historic enmity’...
The island has been ~ed since the mid-seventies.
VERB: be V-ed, V n, V-ed
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Partition is also a noun.
...fighting which followed the ~ of India.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n