Balkanizing

Variant of Balkanize

Balkanize definition

Bal·kan·ize (bôl′kən īz′)

transitive verb, intransitive verb Balkanized -·ized′, Balkanizing -·iz′·ing

to break up into small, mutually hostile political units, as the Balkans after WWI

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