compartmentalize

kәm,pɑ:t'mentәlaiz3 senses · 2 ms

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To separate something into different categories, or compartments.transitive
- Russia and Iran see the wars against Israel and Ukraine as indelibly linked — and we in the West would be foolish to compartmentalize them.
- (He [speaker Mike Johnson] recently said that women, unlike men, are unable to “compartmentalize” their thoughts.)

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