break up

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Definitions

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to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"

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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"

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come apart; "the group broke up"

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break violently or noisily; smash;

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make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

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cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"

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suffer a nervous breakdown

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take apart into its constituent pieces

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destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set"

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set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"

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attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"

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release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve"

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close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"

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bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"

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come to an end; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"

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break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"

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cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"

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separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

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laugh unrestrainedly

Synonyms

adjourn break break apart break down calve collapse crack crack up crash crock up cut off decompose disassemble dismantle dispel disperse disrupt dissipate dissolve fragment fragmentise fragmentize interrupt part pick recess resolve scatter separate sever split split up take apart

More General Terms

alter break break off cease change change integrity come apart destroy destruct discontinue disintegrate disunite divide end express joy express mirth fall apart finish get have laugh modify part pierce separate split split up stop suffer sustain terminate

More Specific Terms

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