"break up" | Definition and Related Words

break up

Verb

To cause to separate and go in different directions (synset 202034269)
"She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"

is a type of: divide, separate - make a division or separation

subtypes: disband - cause to break up or cease to function

same as: dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter
Discontinue an association or relation;
Go different ways (synset 202436167)
"The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
subtypes:
- give the axe, give the bounce, give the gate - terminate a relationship abruptly
- break apart, disunify - break up or separate
- disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce - part; cease or break association with
- break with - end a relationship
- divorce, split up - get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- break away, secede, splinter - withdraw from an organization or communion
- break, break away - interrupt a continued activity
same as: break, part, separate, split, split up
Come apart (synset 202033508)
"the group broke up"

is a type of: part, separate, split - go one's own way; move apart

subtypes: disband, dissolve - stop functioning or cohering as a unit
Break violently or noisily;
Smash (synset 201564843)
is a type of: disintegrate - break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity

same as: break apart, crash

verb group: crash - cause to crash
Make a break in (synset 200780320)
"We interrupt the program for the following messages"

is a type of: break, break off, discontinue, stop - prevent completion
subtypes:
- cut, cut off - cease, stop
- punctuate - interrupt periodically
- break - interrupt the flow of current in
- put aside, put away - turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
- break, intermit, pause - cease an action temporarily
- barge in, break in, butt in, chime in, chisel in, cut in, put in - break into a conversation
- burst in on, burst upon - spring suddenly
- heckle - challenge aggressively
- come in, inject, interject, interpose, put in, throw in - to insert between other elements
- block, jam - interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- stop, stop over - interrupt a trip
- take off, take time off - take time off from work; stop working temporarily
same as: cut off, disrupt, interrupt
Cause to go into a solution (synset 200448264)
"The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"

causes: dissolve - pass into a solution

is a type of: change integrity - change in physical make-up
subtypes:
- melt, melt down, run - reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- cut - dissolve by breaking down the fat of
same as: dissolve, resolve
Suffer a nervous breakdown (synset 201789398)
is a type of: get, have, suffer, sustain - undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)

same as: collapse, crack, crack up, crock up
Take apart into its constituent pieces (synset 201661660)
is a type of: destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

subtypes: strike - disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set

same as: break apart, disassemble, dismantle, take apart
Destroy the completeness of a set of related items (synset 201613367)
"The book dealer would not break the set"

is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

same as: break

verb group: break - exchange for smaller units of money
Set or keep apart (synset 201563766)
"sever a relationship"

is a type of: disunite, divide, part, separate - force, take, or pull apart

same as: sever

verb group: discerp, lop, sever - cut off from a whole
Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example (synset 201445197)
"Pick open the ice"

entail: chop, hack - cut with a hacking tool

is a type of: pierce - cut or make a way through

same as: pick
Release ice (synset 201217581)
"The icebergs and glaciers calve"

is a type of: divide, part, separate - come apart

same as: calve
Close at the end of a session (synset 200364950)
"The court adjourned"

is a type of: cease, end, finish, stop, terminate - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

same as: adjourn, recess
Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up (synset 200356609)
"The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"

is a type of: end, terminate - bring to an end or halt

same as: dissolve

verb group: dismiss, dissolve - declare void
Come to an end (synset 200356457)
"Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"

is a type of: end, terminate - bring to an end or halt

same as: dissolve
Break or cause to break into pieces (synset 200338881)
"The plate fragmented"

is a type of: break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up - become separated into pieces or fragments
subtypes:
- atomise, atomize - break up into small particles
- bray, comminute, crunch, grind, mash - reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- pound - break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- sunder - break apart or in two, using violence
- sliver, splinter - break up into splinters or slivers
- rag - break into lumps before sorting
- crumb - break into crumbs
- brecciate - break into breccia
- crush - break into small pieces
- grate, grind - make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
same as: fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize
Cause to separate (synset 200331375)
"break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"

is a type of: change integrity - change in physical make-up

subtypes: backscatter - scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes

same as: disperse, scatter
Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts (synset 200209582)
referred to in: chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions

is a type of: separate - divide into components or constituents
subtypes:
- digest - soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
- dissociate - to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms
- crack - reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
same as: break down, decompose
Laugh unrestrainedly (synset 200030359)
is a type of: express joy, express mirth, laugh - produce laughter

same as: crack up

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