subdivide

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: sub=di=vide

CIDE DICTIONARY

subdivide, v. t. [L. subdividere, sub under + dividere to divide. See Divide.].

 To divide the parts of (anything) into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided.  [1913 Webster]
"The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others."  [1913 Webster]

subdivide, v. i. 

 To be, or to become, subdivided.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

subdivide, v.tr. & intr. divide again after a first division.

Etymology

ME f. L subdividere (as SUB-, DIVIDE)

THESAURUS

subdivide

alphabetize, analyze, anatomize, apportion, arrange, assay, assort, bifurcate, bisect, branch, break down, break up, by two, catalog, categorize, class, classify, cleave, codify, contradistinguish, cut in two, cut up, demarcate, demark, dichotomize, differentiate, digest, dimidiate, discriminate, dissect, distinguish, district, divide, divide up, divvy, divvy up, draw the line, file, fission, fork, grade, group, halve, in half, index, list, mark the interface, order, parcel, parcel out, partition, pick out, pigeonhole, place, portion, ramify, range, rank, rate, reduce, reduce to elements, resolve, screen, screen out, section, segment, segregate, select, separate, set a limit, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, sort, sort out, split, split hairs, split in two, split up, subtilize, tabulate, transect, type, winnow, zone

ROGET THESAURUS

subdivide

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.