break up
Verb
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subtypes: disband - cause to break up or cease to function
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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
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is a type of: disintegrate - break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unitysame as: break apart, crashverb group: crash - cause to crash
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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
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causes: dissolve - pass into a solutionis a type of: change integrity - change in physical make-upsubtypes:
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subtypes: strike - disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
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same as: breakverb group: break - exchange for smaller units of money
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same as: sever
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is a type of: pierce - cut or make a way throughsame as: pick
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same as: calve
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same as: dissolve
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same as: dissolve
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is a type of: break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up - become separated into pieces or fragmentssubtypes:
- 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
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is a type of: change integrity - change in physical make-upsubtypes: backscatter - scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes
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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 reactionsis a type of: separate - divide into components or constituentssubtypes:
- 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 -
same as: crack up
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