The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subdivide \Sub`di*vide"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subdivided; p. pr. & vb. n. Subdividing.] [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.
The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies,
and those colonies were subdivided into many others.
--Dryden.
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vb. (present participle of subdivide English)
Usage examples of "subdividing".
The fungus you fried puts them out, and they keep subdividing and subdividing until there's one to penetrate each cell of the host.
Sick of the clotted traffic, the rising crime, the overcrowded schools, the destruction of coastlines, the paving and subdividing and mailing of what was once a beautiful place.
Leading the fight against an expanded park buffer are Homestead City Council members, some of whom continue to invoke hurricane hardship as a justification for subdividing everything in sight.
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.
It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself.
But seen from the inside both palaces are warrens of stuffy windowless rooms created by subdividing other rooms.