split, v. 1. divide, separate, break, break up, part, disjoin, disjoint, break asunder; rive, halve, bisect, cut in two, partition, dichotomize, Obs. dimidiate; sever, dissever, rend, abscind, sunder; dissect, anatomize, divorce, disband, go separate ways, fan out, spread out; pull apart, disconnect, disarticulate, disengage, unclench, detach; fork, branch, bifurcate, ramify, radiate.
2. chop, cut, hew, cleave, carve; slice, lop, whack, cut off; hack, dismember, mangle, slash, slit, gash, score; break, SI. bust, fracture, rupture, snap, crack.
3. rend, burst, tear, rip, break apart, open, dehisce, come apart, give way; disjoin, loose, unloose, loosen, undo, untie, unbind; splinter, shatter, spall, fragment; gape, yawn, gap, spread.
4. alienate, isolate, set apart, estrange, disunite; set against, set at odds, come between; disaffect, make hostile, Inf. stir up trouble, cause dissension.
5. share, apportion, portion, divide, Inf. divvy, dispose; partition, subdivide, carve up, demarcate, segregate; distribute, deal, dole, parcel out, allot, allocate; disperse, dispense, assign, detail.
6. Slang, depart, leave, take off, quit, exit; vacate, check out, be off, take leave, push off, shove off, go forth. -n. 7. crack, fissure, tear, rip, rift, cleft; slot, interstice, interspace, chink, cranny; gap, hiatus, opening, aperture, orifice; chasm, gulf, crevice, crevasse, check, chap; slit, slash, score, gash; furrow, ridge, channel, groove, sucus, Archaic, scissure; fission, partition, section; fork, bifurcation, ramification, bifidi-ty, Obs. dimidiation.
8. break, breach, rupture, separation, severance, sunderance, cleavage; schism, difference, dissension, dichotomy; disjunction, disconnection, disengagement, disunion, divulsion; interruption, disjunction, divarication; division, subdivision, partition, scission; dissolution, parting, alienation, detachment, withdrawal; segregation, isolation, fragmentation, compartmentalization; breakup, divorce, divorcement, SI. crack-up. -adj. 9. parted, broken, ruptured, cleft, cloven, riven, reft; halved, dimidiate, bisected; slit, rent, cut, torn, cracked, dehiscent. 10. divided, disunited, parted, divorced, asunder; alienated, estranged, poles apart; detached, apart, withdrawn, isolated,
splotch, n. 1. blotch, patch, blob, glob, splash; spot, blot, ink stain, stain, soil, mark, dirty spot, smudge, smutch, smear, smirch. -v. 2. splash, splatter, spatter, bespatter, splutter; blotch, spot, blot, stain, soil, sully, dirty; mark, smudge, smutch, smear, besmear, bedaub, smirch, besmirch.
splurge, v. 1. indulge, go all out, Inf. go whole hog, SI. shoot the works, go overboard, go off the deep end.
2. show off, make a splash, Inf cut a dash, be ostentatious, flaunt, parade, make a big deal, SI. showboat.
3. lavish, spend extravagantly, slather, SI. hang the expense, play the profligate or prodigal; throw money around, spend money like water, spend like a drunken sailor, spend money as if it grew on trees, spend money as if it were going out of style; squander, dissipate, throw away, burn up, waste, SI. blow, pour down the drain.
-n. 4. spree, shopping spree; indulgence, in-dulgency, extravagance; display, show, splash,
spoil, v. 1. damage, harm, hurt, injure, impair, disable; disfigure, scar, deface, deform; mar, blemish, blight, tarnish.