| Halve 1. (n.) A half. 2. (v. t.) To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of. 3. (v. t.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together. Thesaurus Entries amputate, apportion, ax, be partners in, bifurcate, bisect, branch, butcher, by two, carve, chop, cleave, cooperate, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, dichotomize, dimidiate, dissever, divide, divide with, divvy up with, excise, fission, fissure, fork, gash, go even stephen, go fifty-fifty, go halvers, go halves, go shares, hack, hew, in half, incise, jigsaw, lance, pare, prune, ramify, rend, rive, saw, scissor, sever, share, share in, slash, slice, slit, snip, split, split in two, split the difference, subdivide, sunder, tear, transect, whittle |