break_up

[break_up]

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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laugh unrestrainedly

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separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

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

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

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

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

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

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release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve"

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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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set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"

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break violently or noisily; smash;

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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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take apart into its constituent pieces

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suffer a nervous breakdown

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come apart; "the group broke up"

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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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Usage Examples

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

I think 'Tattoo''s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.

It's sad when people break up.

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.