divide – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of divide

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to divide
Participle: divided
Gerund: dividing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Idivide
youdivide
he;she;itdivides
wedivide
youdivide
theydivide

Perfect

Ihave divided
youhave divided
he;she;ithas divided
wehave divided
youhave divided
theyhave divided

Past

Idivided
youdivided
he;she;itdivided
wedivided
youdivided
theydivided

Pluperfect

Ihad divided
youhad divided
he;she;ithad divided
wehad divided
youhad divided
theyhad divided

Future

Iwill divide
youwill divide
he;she;itwill divide
wewill divide
youwill divide
theywill divide

Future Perfect

Iwill have divided
youwill have divided
he;she;itwill have divided
wewill have divided
youwill have divided
theywill have divided

Subjunctive

Present

Idivide
youdivide
he;she;itdivide
wedivide
youdivide
theydivide

Perfect

Ihave divided
youhave divided
he;she;ithave divided
wehave divided
youhave divided
theyhave divided

Imperfect

Idivided
youdivided
he;she;itdivided
wedivided
youdivided
theydivided

Pluperfect

Ihad divided
youhad divided
he;she;ithad divided
wehad divided
youhad divided
theyhad divided

Conditional

Present

Iwould divide
youwould divide
he;she;itwould divide
wewould divide
youwould divide
theywould divide

Perfect

Iwould have divided
youwould have divided
he;she;itwould have divided
wewould have divided
youwould have divided
theywould have divided

Imperative

youdivide
weLet's divide
youdivide

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam dividing
youare dividing
he;she;itis dividing
weare dividing
youare dividing
theyare dividing

Perfect

Ihave been dividing
youhave been dividing
he;she;ithas been dividing
wehave been dividing
youhave been dividing
theyhave been dividing

Past

Iwas dividing
youwere dividing
he;she;itwas dividing
wewere dividing
youwere dividing
theywere dividing

Pluperfect

Ihad been dividing
youhad been dividing
he;she;ithad been dividing
wehad been dividing
youhad been dividing
theyhad been dividing

Future

Iwill be dividing
youwill be dividing
he;she;itwill be dividing
wewill be dividing
youwill be dividing
theywill be dividing

Future Perfect

Iwill have been dividing
youwill have been dividing
he;she;itwill have been dividing
wewill have been dividing
youwill have been dividing
theywill have been dividing

Conditional

Present

Iwould be dividing
youwould be dividing
he;she;itwould be dividing
wewould be dividing
youwould be dividing
theywould be dividing

Perfect

Iwould have been dividing
youwould have been dividing
he;she;itwould have been dividing
wewould have been dividing
youwould have been dividing
theywould have been dividing

Other

Verbs similar to 'divide'

devide, divine, decide, deride, devise, devive, diffide, discide, dive, redivide,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

divide into separate parts
separate
to identify by or divide into classes
brand, categorize, classify, compartmentalise, distribute, estimate, evaluate, gauge, judge, label, measure, peg, pigeonhole, sort, subdivide
to divide into portions and issue out
administer, allocate, allot, apportion, deal, deal out, dispart, dispend, dispense, disperse, distribute, give out, issue, mete out, parcel out, piecemeal, portion out, share, share out, sunder out
to split into two or more parts
becut, discerp, disintegrate, dispart, dissever, divorce, part, partition, piecemeal, rescind, section, sever, split, split up, sunder
separate
rend, cleave, disconnect, tear, disjoin, part, sever
distribute
parcel, apportion, deal, wall, dole, partition, portion
alienate
disunite, estrange
arrange
articulate, partition, classify, distinguish, distribute, sort

Antonyms

to make tighter
liberate, loosen, tighten
to split into two or more parts
annex, coalesce, combine, join, merge, unify, unite
to join into a single mass or whole
segregate, coalesce
To split into parts.
integrate, join
to become or remain attached
adhere, deadhere
separate
connect, combine, attach, consolidate
arrange
disarrange, disorder, derange, jumble

Additional Information

Etymology

1. c.1374, from L. dividere "to force apart, cleave, distribute," from dis- "apart" + -videre "to separate," from PIE base *widh- "to separate," related to widow; and see with. Mathematical sense is from c.1425. The noun meaning "watershed, separation between river valleys" is first recorded 1807. Divider "partition or screen," especially in a room, is from 1959. Divide and rule (1602) translates L. divide et impera, a maxim of Machiavelli.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
4. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
5. Proto-Italic *dis-
6. Latin dis-
7. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
8. Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
9. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
10. Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.
11. Proto-Italic *wiðō
12. Latin *vidō
13. Latin dīvidōder.
14. Middle English dividen
15. English divide
16. PIE word
17. *dwóh₁
18. From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan related to English deal which formerly meant a “portion” or “part” of something. See: Latin 'dīvidō'.

Verbs referencing "divide"

Spanish dividir, Ido dividar.

Sample Sentences

  • Divided between our rubber and such topics as these, we were running (as we thought ) into Halifax Harbour, on the fifteenth night, with little wind and a bright moon—indeed, we had made the Light at its [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] or gentleman makes another last will—positively the last this time—conceals the same in a china teapot, and expires next day. Then it turns out, that the whole of the real and personal estate is divided between half-a-dozen charities; and that the dead and gone testator has in pure spite helped to do a great deal of good, at the cost of an immense amount of evil passion and misery. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] gratitude and good behaviour. Instead of being parcelled out in great, long, rambling wards, where a certain amount of weazen life may mope, and pine, and shiver, all day long, the building is divided into separate rooms, each with its share of light and air. In these, the better kind of paupers live. They have a motive for exertion and becoming pride, in the desire to make these little [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] the manufacture of palm-leaf hats ), afterwards in their school, where they sang a chorus in praise of Liberty: an odd, and, one would think, rather aggravating, theme for prisoners. These boys are divided into four classes, each denoted by a numeral, worn on a badge upon the arm. On the arrival of a new-comer, he is put into the fourth or lowest class, and left, by good behaviour, to work his way up [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] the best house in those parts, and was built by an eminent merchant for his own residence. Like that institution at Boston, which I have before described, it is not parcelled out into wards, but is divided into convenient chambers, each of which has all the comforts of a very comfortable home. The principal medical attendant resides under the same roof; and were the patients members of his own [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] Capitol, are, of course, the two houses of Assembly. But there is, besides, in the centre of the building, a fine rotunda, ninety-six feet in diameter, and ninety-six high, whose circular wall is divided into compartments, ornamented by historical pictures. Four of these have for their subjects prominent events in the revolutionary struggle. They were painted by Colonel Trumbull, himself a member [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • I visited both houses nearly every day, during my stay in Washington. On my initiatory visit to the House of Representatives, they divided against a decision of the chair; but the chair won. The second time I went, the member who was speaking, being interrupted by a laugh, mimicked it, as one child would in quarrelling with another, [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Mr. Wilson, a good-natured but extremely fidgety and cautious old gentleman, ambled up and down the room, appearing, as John Bunyan hath it, “ much tumbled up and down in his mind, ” and divided between his wish to help George, and a certain confused notion of maintaining law and order: so, as he shambled about, he delivered himself as follows: (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • A fine broad river always, but in some parts much wider than in others: and then there is usually a green island, covered with trees, dividing it into two streams. Occasionally, we stop for a few minutes, maybe to take in wood, maybe for passengers, at some small town or village (I ought to say city, every place is a city here ); but the [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • There was a gentleman on board, to whom, as I unintentionally learned through the thin partition which divided our state-room from the cabin in which he and his wife conversed together, I was unwittingly the occasion of very great uneasiness. I do n't know why or wherefore, but I appeared to run in his mind [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)