break-up

Verbs

  • (v) to cause to separate and go in different directions
    • She waved her hand and scattered the crowds
    dissipate, scatter, dispel, disperse,
  • (v) 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
    part, split, split up, separate, break,
  • (v) come apart
    • the group broke up
  • (v) break violently or noisily; smash; break apart, crash,
  • (v) make a break in
    • We interrupt the program for the following messages
    cut off, disrupt, interrupt,
  • (v) cause to go into a solution
    • The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water
    dissolve, resolve,
  • (v) suffer a nervous breakdown crack up, crock up, collapse, crack,
  • (v) take apart into its constituent pieces break apart, disassemble, take apart, dismantle,
  • (v) destroy the completeness of a set of related items
    • The book dealer would not break the set
    break,
  • (v) set or keep apart
    • sever a relationship
    sever,
  • (v) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
    • Pick open the ice
    pick,
  • (v) release ice
    • The icebergs and glaciers calve
    calve,
  • (v) close at the end of a session
    • The court adjourned
    adjourn, recess,
  • (v) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
    • The decree officially dissolved the marriage
    • the judge dissolved the tobacco company
    dissolve,
  • (v) come to an end
    • Their marriage dissolved
    • The tobacco monopoly broke up
    dissolve,
  • (v) break or cause to break into pieces
    • The plate fragmented
    fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize,
  • (v) cause to separate
    • break up kidney stones
    • disperse particles
    disperse, scatter,
  • (v) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts decompose, break down,
  • (v) laugh unrestrainedly crack up,

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

assemble put together tack together piece set up tack

Words of close approximity

break-in break in