splitting

Splitting from a bad spouse is accepted but a stigma remains about cutting out a damaging sibling or parent.

"It's the meanest thing out,—that splitting on a pal," said the man who had been called Michael.

Tapered iron wedges on the well-known mechanical principle, for splitting out blocks and for other similar purposes.

I only want you to brush my hair; I've had a trying evening here, and I've a splitting headache.

The river was splitting into a dozen smaller streams, shaping out fanlike.

Finally by an effort he swore that his head was splitting, that he must return to Ischl.