verb : BREAK UP
Source: WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds" ;
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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" ;
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3. (
) come apart; "the group broke up" ;
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4. (
) break violently or noisily; smash ;
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5. (
) make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" ;
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6. (
) 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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7. (
) suffer a nervous breakdown ;
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8. (
) take apart into its constituent pieces ;
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9. (
) destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set" ;
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10. (
) set or keep apart; "sever a relationship" ;
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11. (
) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice" ;
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12. (
) release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve" ;
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13. (
) close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned" ;
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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" ;
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15. (
) come to an end; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up" ;
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16. (
) break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented" ;
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17. (
) cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles" ;
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18. (
) separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts ;
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19. (
) laugh unrestrainedly ;
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