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fragment

2 verb
     
frag‧ment2 [intransitive and transitive]
to break something, or be broken into a lot of small separate parts - used to show disapproval:
the dangers of fragmenting the Health Service
—fragmented adjective:
a fragmented society
—fragmentation noun [uncountable]
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