split up
verb
- split up
Wiktionary
adj
- Divided or separated.
- Of a person: having long legs.
“He should preferably be tall, weighty, well split up in the legs (especially from the hip-joint to the knee), neatly turned at the knee and ankle joints […]”
verb
- Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
“After she left to go travelling, my girlfriend and I split up.”
“The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building.”
- separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
“The brothers never behaved in class when they were together, so we had to split them up for the exam.”