"carve up" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "carving up",
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    },
    {
      "form": "carved up",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "carved up",
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "To cut into pieces."
      ],
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          "text": "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To divide or dismember, separate into parts"
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          "divide",
          "divide"
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          "dismember",
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          "separate",
          "separate"
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      "qualifier": "land",
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        "(country, land, etc.) To divide or dismember, separate into parts"
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        "location",
        "region"
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      "form": "carves up",
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    {
      "form": "carving up",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "carved up",
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        "To cut into pieces."
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          "dismember"
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