break up

Verb (19)

1. to cause to separate and go in different directions“She waved her hand and scattered the crowds”Synonyms: dispersedissipatedispelscatter
2. 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: separatepartsplit upsplitbreak
3. come apart“the group broke up”
4. break violently or noisily; smash;Synonyms: crashbreak apart
5. make a break in“We interrupt the program for the following messages”Synonyms: interruptdisruptcut off
6. cause to go into a solution“The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water”Synonyms: dissolveresolve
7. suffer a nervous breakdownSynonyms: crack upcrackcrock upcollapse
8. take apart into its constituent piecesSynonyms: disassembledismantletake apartbreak apart
9. destroy the completeness of a set of related items“The book dealer would not break the set”Synonyms: break
10. set or keep apart“sever a relationship”Synonyms: sever
11. attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example“Pick open the ice”Synonyms: pick
12. release ice“The icebergs and glaciers calve”Synonyms: calve
13. close at the end of a session“The court adjourned”Synonyms: adjournrecess
14. 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. come to an end“Their marriage dissolved”“The tobacco monopoly broke up”Synonyms: dissolve
16. break or cause to break into pieces“The plate fragmented”Synonyms: fragmentfragmentizefragmentise
17. cause to separate“break up kidney stones”“disperse particles”Synonyms: dispersescatter
18. separate (substances) into constituent elements or partsSynonyms: decomposebreak down
19. laugh unrestrainedlySynonyms: crack up