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BREAK UP

Definition:

1. [verb] to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
   Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, dispel, scatter
   
   
2. [verb] discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
   Synonyms: separate, part, split up, split, break
   
   
3. [verb] come apart; "the group broke up"
   
   
4. [verb] break violently or noisily; smash;
   Synonyms: crash, break apart
   
   
5. [verb] make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
   Synonyms: interrupt, disrupt, cut off
   
   
6. [verb] cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
   Synonyms: dissolve, resolve
   
   
7. [verb] suffer a nervous breakdown
   Synonyms: crack up, crack, crock up, collapse
   
   
8. [verb] take apart into its constituent pieces
   Synonyms: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break apart
   
   
9. [verb] destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set"
   Synonyms: break
   
   
10. [verb] set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
    Synonyms: sever
    
    
11. [verb] attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"
    Synonyms: pick
    
    
12. [verb] release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve"
    Synonyms: calve
    
    
13. [verb] close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"
    Synonyms: adjourn, recess
    
    
14. [verb] bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"
    Synonyms: dissolve
    
    
15. [verb] come to an end; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"
    Synonyms: dissolve
    
    
16. [verb] break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"
    Synonyms: fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
    
    
17. [verb] cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"
    Synonyms: disperse, scatter
    
    
18. [verb] separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
    Synonyms: decompose, break down
    
    
19. [verb] laugh unrestrainedly
    Synonyms: crack up
    
    

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Related Words:

• disband
• give the axe, give the bounce, give the gate
• disunify, break apart
• disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint
• break with
• divorce, split up
• secede, splinter, break away
• break, break away
• disband, dissolve
• cut, cut off
• punctuate
• break
• put away
• pause, intermit, break
• chime in, cut in, put in, butt in, chisel in, barge in, break in
• burst in on, burst upon
• heckle
• interject, come in, interpose, put in, throw in, inject
• jam, block
• stop, stop over
• take off, take time off
• melt, run, melt down
• cut
• atomize, atomise
• grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute
• pound
• sunder
• splinter, sliver
• rag
• crumb
• brecciate
• crush
• grate, grind
• backscatter
• digest
• dissociate
• crack

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