Break Up (Verb)
Meaning 1
Destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set".
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Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 2
Break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented".
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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
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Meaning 3
Come to an end; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up".
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Meaning 4
Come apart; "the group broke up".
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Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
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Meaning 5
Make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages".
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Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
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Meaning 6
To cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds".
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Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
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Meaning 7
Close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned".
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Meaning 8
Laugh unrestrainedly.
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Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care.
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Meaning 10
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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Verbs of political and social activities and events.
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- Give The Gate
- Disassociate
- Break With
- Split Up
- Splinter
- Disunify
- Give The Bounce
- Divorce
- Dissociate
- Disunite
- Break
- Disjoint
- Secede
- Break Apart
- Give The Axe
- Break Away
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Meaning 11
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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Meaning 12
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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Meaning 13
Take apart into its constituent pieces.
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Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing.
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Meaning 14
Cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles".
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Meaning 15
Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts.
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Meaning 16
Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice".
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Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 17
Release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve".
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Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 18
Set or keep apart; "sever a relationship".
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Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 19
Break violently or noisily; smash.
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Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.