subdivide
verb (used with object)
to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
have subdivided
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present perfectof subdivide.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Rather than merely gathering a grab bag of cinematic artifacts and spilling them forth, they have subdivided their hoard of nearly 400 items within six genre-themed galleries: Gothic, Psychological, Science, Slasher, Religion and Ghosts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Blocks inland, Cubans like Elena Acea, 40, have subdivided apartments to Alice in Wonderland proportions.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2011
Ten families have subdivided the 16 rooms of the 100-year-old structure into 32 cubicles, and its courtyard is dotted with drying pepper bunches and ears of corn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir: Dr. Page bemoans the fact that specialists seem to have subdivided the human body and that there should be someone who can see it as a whole.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have subdivided him somehow into five or six.
From Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock
