BALKANIZE
- to break up a region, a group, etc.
- to divide into mutually hostile [v BALKANIZED, BALKANIZES, BALKANIZING]
- is an oftencapitalized verb meaning to break up a region, a group, etc.
- to divide (a region or territory) into small, often hostile units [v BALKANIZED, BALKANIZING, BALKANIZES]
- to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states
- to divide (groups, areas, etc.) into contending and usually ineffectual factions