fragmentate

verb

Definition of fragmentatenext
as in to fragment

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmentate
  1. fragment
  2. segment
  3. quarter
  4. cut off
  5. partition
  6. break down
  7. pull
  8. dissect
Verb
  • The media decayed and fragmented, along with the nation.
    Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The coming launch of Venu and ESPN’s stand-alone service will fragment the business further.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of fragment
Verb
  • Travel companies can segment their customers into different groups: leisure or business, luxury or budget, family or solo traveler.
    Angus McDonald, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Or, like Swarovski is doing by segmenting its collection into identifiable tiers, which the brand calls its ‘complications,’ targeting different product-price profiles.
    Stéphane JG Girod, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of segment
Verb
  • Her husband walked toward her along the village street, where military vehicles are visible outside houses where soldiers are quartered.
    Oksana Parafeniuk, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Podcast: The Case for Ditching Your Treestand and Hunting from the Ground The buck was quartering away, and Pfeiffer had to turn slightly to get a shot angle.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of quarter
Verb
  • TikTok and content creators on the app argued the ban violates their First Amendment rights by cutting off all speech on the platform, while the federal government argued the ban is necessary for national security, given ByteDance’s Chinese ownership.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Kira Weibel was in eighth grade when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the student’s Altadena charter school, cutting off critical community connections.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of cut off
Verb
  • The county will also partition a portion of the network to serve its administrative functions, eliminating its need for an external internet provider at its buildings.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Nearly a century ago, the British partitioned the island as part of a deal granting independence to a new Irish state.
    Daniel Finn, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2019
Definition of partition
Verb
  • The 2024 point-in-time count does not break down the statistics by city.
    Abe Aboraya, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Mushrooms and fungi flourish in the shaded understory, breaking down organic material and recycling nutrients back into the soil.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of break down
Verb
  • Brands began to pull together resources to support refugees.
    Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The 13-minute performance will likely call for a healthy dose of vibrant, colored lighting to pull it all together.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 10 Feb. 2023
Definition of pull
Verb
  • Visitors to the Science Museum will be able to see the menagerie’s most famous resident: Louis XV’s rhinoceros, given to the king by a French governor based in India and later dissected and taxidermied upon its death.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • JPMorgan’s trading desk focused on the monthly core CPI number as the most critical, and dissected how the S & P 500 might move depending on the reading.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of dissect
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Thesaurus Entries Near fragmentate

fragmentary

fragmentate

fragmentated

See More Nearby Entries 

Cite this Entry

“Fragmentate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentate. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

Copy Citation

Share

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See All

'Affect' vs. 'Effect'

Using Bullet Points ( • )

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?

What's the difference between 'fascism' and 'socialism'?

More Commonly Misspelled Words
See All

Popular in Wordplay

See All

Top 12 Sophisticated Compliments

Word of the Year 2024 | Polarization

Terroir, Oenophile, & Magnum: Ten Words About Wine

8 Words for Lesser-Known Musical Instruments

10 Words from Taylor Swift Songs (Merriam's Version)
See All

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Word Game Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
white rubber duck stands out in a row of yellow ducks
Odd Word Out: Synonyms Quiz Figure out which word isn't like the others.