Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb balkanise

1 sense of balkanise

Sense 1
Balkanize, Balkanise -- (divide a territory into small, hostile states)
       => divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up -- (separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I")