compartmentalize
verb (used with object)
to divide into separate and isolated categories, sections, areas, or compartments.
compartmentalized
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past participleof compartmentalize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof compartmentalize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
compartmentalizeverb (used with object)to divide into separate and isolated categories, sections, areas, or compartments.
Example Sentences
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In contrast, Mr. Driscoll warned lawmakers, “our software systems are compartmentalized, isolated and ineffective against modern threats.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The second feature is the nanoreactor's compartmentalized structure.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Instead, from the very beginning, the law compartmentalized requirements of parental involvement in some contexts and inconsistently applied those requirements in others.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2026
Will’s objections, based on his past writings, may be more aesthetic than principled, the product of a neatly compartmentalized mind.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
And as his eyes focused on all the gentle gray shapes slowly hopping around in that compartmentalized wire pen, his heart did another flip-flop.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
