To cause to separate and go in different directions.

synonyms: dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter.

Roget 162: be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.    destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual etc. 756; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish [Slang], undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.    smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate^†; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf^†, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.    deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle etc. (render useless) 645; devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate etc. 301.    ... show more

Roget 49: decompose, decompound; analyze, disembody, dissolve; resolve into its elements, separate into its elements; electrolyze [Chem]; dissect, decentralize, break up; disperse etc. 73; unravel etc. (unroll) 313; crumble into dust.    ... show more

Dutch: verstrooien, verbreiden

Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.

synonyms: break, part, separate, split, split up.

Roget 44: be disjoined &c.; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose.    disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair^†; divorce, part, dispart^†, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock etc. (fix) 43, unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free etc. (liberate) 750.    sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind^†; circumcise; cut; incide^†, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend &c., rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch^†, crunch, craunch^†, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind^†, lacerate, scamble^†, mangle, gash, hash, slice.    cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb^†; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate^†; skin etc. 226; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch^†, disband; disperse etc. 73; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute etc. (pulverize) 330; apportion etc. 786.    part, part company; separate, leave.    ... show more

Come apart.

Break violently or noisily; smash.

synonyms: break apart, crash.

Make a break in.

synonyms: cut off, disrupt, interrupt.

Cause to go into a solution.

synonyms: dissolve, resolve.

Dutch: zich, beslissen, oplossen, resolveren

Suffer a nervous breakdown.

synonyms: collapse, crack, crack up, crock up.

Dutch: doldraaien, doordraaien, inklappen, instorten, inzakken

Take apart into its constituent pieces.

synonyms: break apart, disassemble, dismantle, take apart.

Dutch: demonteren, ontmantelen

Destroy the completeness of a set of related items.

synonym: break.

Polish: zdekompletowanie się

Set or keep apart.

synonym: sever.

Dutch: uitmaken

Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example.

synonym: pick.

Release ice.

synonym: calve.

Close at the end of a session.

synonyms: adjourn, recess.

Dutch: stopzetten, onderbreken, verdagen

Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up.

synonym: dissolve.

Come to an end.

synonym: dissolve.

Dutch: breken, verbreken

Break or cause to break into pieces.

synonyms: fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize.

Cause to separate:
— Break up kidney stones.

synonyms: disperse, scatter.

Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts.

synonyms: break down, decompose.

Dutch: ontbinden

Laugh unrestrainedly.

synonym: crack up.