🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

구획화하다

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gu-hoek-hwa-ha-da

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Compartmentalize/kəmˈpɑːr.tən.tə.maɪz/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 사생활과 공생활을 철저히 구획화한다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To divide something into sections or categories, especially in order to make it easier to manage or understand.

    "She learned to compartmentalize her work life and her personal life to reduce stress."
  2. 2

    To separate thoughts, feelings, or aspects of behavior from each other so that they do not conflict.

    "He had to compartmentalize his grief in order to focus on the rescue mission."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from compartment, which traces back to the French 'compartiment' and Italian 'compartimento' (from Latin 'compartiri', meaning to divide). The verb suffix '-ize' was added in the 19th century to denote the action of dividing things into distinct, isolated sections.

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