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break up

verb

1 break up

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, ... 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; ... show more

Dutch: verstrooien, verbreiden

2 break up

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; ... show more

3 break up

Come apart.

4 break up

Break violently or noisily; smash.

synonyms: break apart, crash.

5 break up

Make a break in.

synonyms: cut off, disrupt, interrupt.

6 break up

Cause to go into a solution.

synonyms: dissolve, resolve.

Dutch: zich, beslissen, oplossen, resolveren

7 break up

Suffer a nervous breakdown.

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

Dutch: doldraaien, doordraaien, inklappen, instorten, inzakken

8 break up

Take apart into its constituent pieces.

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

Dutch: demonteren, ontmantelen

9 break up

Destroy the completeness of a set of related items.

synonym: break.

Polish: zdekompletowanie siÄ™

10 break up

Set or keep apart.

synonym: sever.

Dutch: uitmaken

11 break up

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

synonym: pick.

12 break up

Release ice.

synonym: calve.

13 break up

Close at the end of a session.

synonyms: adjourn, recess.

Dutch: stopzetten, onderbreken, verdagen

14 break up

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

synonym: dissolve.

15 break up

Come to an end.

synonym: dissolve.

Dutch: breken, verbreken

16 break up

Break or cause to break into pieces.

synonyms: fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize.

17 break up

Cause to separate:
— Break up kidney stones.

synonyms: disperse, scatter.

18 break up

Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts.

synonyms: break down, decompose.

Dutch: ontbinden

19 break up

Laugh unrestrainedly.

synonym: crack up.


noun

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; ... show more

Roget 67: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, ... show more

adjective

Roget 659: unimproved etc. (improve) etc. 658; deteriorated etc. v.; altered, altered for the worse; injured etc. v.; ... show more

noun

Roget 146: revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction etc. 162; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; ... show more

Moby thesaurus: ablate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, amuse, analyze, anatomize, assay, atomize, be in stitches, beguile, better, bite the dust, break, break down, break into pieces, break open, break to pieces ... show more.

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