Compartmentalize (Verb)
Meaning
Separate into isolated compartments or categories; "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- She had to compartmentalize her feelings about her difficult childhood to deal with it on a deeper level later in life.
- Compartmentalizing his emotions allowed him to focus on his work, even in the most trying of situations.
- Her therapist encouraged her not to compartmentalize her grief, but to face it head-on.
- After years of compartmentalizing his traumatic experience, he finally sought professional help.
- Compartmentalizing her life into separate 'rings of relationships' was a coping mechanism she struggled to shake.