say it: kuhm-pahrt-MEN-tuh-lahyz
compartmentalize is a verb meaning "separate into isolated compartments or categories". It carries one recorded sense.
separate into isolated compartments or categories
“You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for compartmentalize come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.