Balkanize
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Balkanize (third-person singular simple present Balkanizes, present participle Balkanizing, simple past and past participle Balkanized)
- (transitive) To break up into small, mutually-hostile units, especially on a political basis.
- 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 83:
- The Pentagon and the CIA were being Balkanized, partially dismantled, and a Congressional investigation had focused on Screaming Fist.
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to break up
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