cut up

Adjective

• cut into pieces

Verb

• significantly cut up a manuscript

• separate into isolated compartments or categories
  • You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!
    

• destroy or injure severely
  • The madman mutilates art work
    

• cut to pieces
  • Father carved the ham
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hack , compartmentalize , compartmentalise , mutilate , mangle , carve