to fragment
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3.7
- verb
- /ˈfræɡmənt/
:
fragmentar
- Her mind was filled with that face. Memories jostled for prominence, fragmented into infinitesimal pieces.
- highly fragmented
- increasingly fragmented
- a fragmented narrative
It, it, social media does a terrible thing that is fragmenting your focus.
- It, it, social media does a terrible thing that is fragmenting your focus.
- And, and even if they had, they're incentivized to stay in on their current path of just fragmenting the human conversation further.
- The nucleus can be fragmented fairly easily, right?
- We don't answer the original question, we just fragment different questions.
- And thus the risk of fragmenting the narcissistic person ourselves, seeing them as the good them and the bad them.
Examples
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But no actually, because what happens with the Internet is that it fragments information.
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The explosion caused the building to fragment into debris.
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And the beauty of this is it can fragment down here.
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Without that understanding, the groups would fragment, obviously, because of the conflict.
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We don't answer the original question, we just fragment different questions.
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And the rest of the population is fragmented.
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I feel my thoughts... ...fragmenting.
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The problem is that this fragmenting approach doesn't really work very well in practice.
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But then we suffered this great explosion and became fragmented in so many different directions.
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The wall of destruction reaches the Capitol Building, fragmenting into a trillion particles.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To change a large bill into smaller bills
∞
1.0
To pull something so it breaks into pieces
95
6.8
To break open suddenly and violently
72
2.8
To break suddenly into many small pieces, like glass
66
2.7
Separate something into smaller pieces
47
2.6
To divide something into smaller parts
44
3.1
To break into pieces or fall into separate parts
39
2.7
To rip something into small pieces
35
5.8
Fall apart into smaller pieces or stop working together
26
3.0
To separate into pieces, for example a machine or a group
21
3.9
To break into many small, sharp pieces like wood or glass
12
3.5
To divide something into separate parts
8
2.8
To tear something into small pieces
8
4.2
To split something into smaller parts
8
5.4
Break something into many small parts or hurt someone very badly
3
5.1
To break or cut something into thin narrow pieces
2
3.5
To come off a larger thing, often because of force or damage
1
3.2
To break something into smaller parts
1
9.9
To cut or separate something into parts, often by breaking it
To break something into many small pieces
To tear something into separate parts, usually by force
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A small piece of DNA made by cutting a DNA strand with a special enzyme
How Fragmented
- US
8
7.4
72
2.8
39
3.7
∞
1.0
311
1.0
104
2.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fragment (as a verb) shares the old root frangere 'to break', so to fragment something is to break it into smaller parts. That's why we say a group or object can fragment when it splits apart.