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cut the pie

VERB

allot

Synonyms

STRONGEST

allocate appoint apportion appropriate assign designate distribute earmark set aside

STRONG

admeasure budget cut share slice

WEAK

divvy dole mete shell out split up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

hold keep refuse reject

WEAK

disallow retain withhold

VERB

Synonyms

STRONGEST

distribute divide participate receive split

STRONG

accord administer allot apportion assign bestow deal dispense divvy part partake partition prorate quota ration shift slice yield

WEAK

be a party to divide with divvy up dole out give and take give out go Dutch go fifty-fifty go halves go in with have a hand in have a portion of mete out parcel out pay half piece up slice up split up take a part of

Antonyms

STRONGEST

collect combine gather hold join keep maintain

STRONG

deny disallow disapprove oppose refuse take unite withhold

WEAK

be selfish

Example Sentences

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In my head, it was easy to cut the pie in half, and then in half again, and again: two, four, or eight pieces.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 7, 2019

The pastry was so flaky and delicate that when I went to cut the pie in half to take some photos, a standard butter knife cut cleanly through without denting or collapsing the dome.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2012

Most enterprisers expand frenetically, cut the pie in a quick, cold-eyed killing, then move on to bigger things.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Brown cut the pie and passed it around.

From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods by Nosworthy, Florence England

When that was despatched, Mrs. Hopkins began to cut the pie.

From The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets by Alger, Horatio

cut the pie

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