Halve

Quick meaning: Halve is a verb meaning (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.

Meaning

(transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To divide into two halves.
2. (transitive) To make up half of.
3. (golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
4. (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

Example Sentences

All that counts is whether you won, lost, or halved the match.

So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.

These show that since 1946 the fatality rate in train and movement accidents combined has been halved, [...].

I, of course, had no difficulty in doing likewise, and we halved the hole; but the awkward fact remained that I must now gain every hole to win the match, for my opponent's score was "nine up," and there only remained ten holes to play.

Word Forms

• halves
• halving
• halved

Synonyms for halve

Depending on context, synonyms include dichotomize, dimidiate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lengthwise, divide, split, reducing, reduce, part.

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