splitting

[split-ing]

adjective

1. being split or causing something to split.

2. violent or severe, as a headache.

3. very fast or rapid.

noun

1. Usually splittings. a part or fragment that has been split off from something.

   Some cavemen made their smaller tools from the splittings of stone.

splitting

/ ˈsplɪtɪŋ /

adjective

1. (of a headache) intolerably painful; acute

2. (of the head) assailed by an overpowering unbearable pain

noun

1. psychoanal the Freudian defence mechanism in which an object or idea (or, alternatively, the ego) is separated into two or more parts in order to remove its threatening meaning

Other Word Forms

• antisplitting adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of splitting¹

First recorded in 1585–95; split + -ing ², -ing ¹

Example Sentences

The mid-decade redistricting — following similar efforts in Texas and Missouri — would see Davids’ territory sliced up again, splitting up her power base in Johnson County.

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More recently known for the trend of "splitting the G", the brewery now sells more than 10 million glasses of Guinness around the world each day.

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I think it would have been if it wasn't splitting.

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The problem with splitting vaccines into multiple shots is that it typically leads to lower vaccine compliance, Meissner said.

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Then there's the thorny question of splitting bills.

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Related Words

• breakdown 
• disintegration 
• dissolution 
• divorce 
• separation 
• split 
• termination