BREAK UP

To cause to separate and go in different directions

Example: "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"

• dispel  9
• disperse  11
• dissipate  12
• scatter  9

• divide  11
• separate  10

• disband  11

Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

Example: "The business partners broke over a tax question"

• break  11
• part  6
• separate  10
• split  7
• split up

• give the axe
• give the bounce
• give the gate
• break apart
• • disunify
  • disassociate  15
  • disjoint  16
  • dissociate  13
  • disunite  9
  • divorce  13
  • break with
  • divorce  13
  • split up
  • break away
  • secede  9
  • splinter  10
  • break  11
  • break away
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Disband

Example: "The group broke up"

• part  6
• separate  10
• split  7

• disband  11
• dissolve  12

Break violently or noisily; smash

• break apart
• crash  10

Make a break in

Example: "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

• cut off
• disrupt  10
• interrupt  11

• break  11
• break off
• discontinue  14
• stop  6

• cut  5
• cut off
• punctuate  13
• break  11
• • put aside
  • put away
  • break  11
  • intermit  10
  • pause  7
  • barge in
  • butt in
  • chime in
  • chisel in
  • put in
  • burst in on
  • burst upon
  • heckle  15
  • come in
  • inject  15
  • interject  18
  • interpose  11
  • put in
  • block  13
  • jam  12
  • stop  6
  • stop over
  • take off
  • take time off
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Cause to go into a solution

Example: "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"

• dissolve  12
• resolve  10

• change integrity

• melt  6
• melt down
• run  3
• cut  5

Suffer a nervous breakdown

• collapse  12
• crock up

Take apart into its constituent pieces

• break apart
• disassemble  16
• dismantle  12
• take apart

• destroy  11
• destruct  11

• strike  10

Destroy the completeness of a set of related items

Example: "The book dealer would not break the set"

• break  11

Set or keep apart

Example: "Sever a relationship"

• sever  8

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

Example: "Pick open the ice"

• pick  12

Release ice

Example: "The icebergs and glaciers calve"

• calve  10

Close at the end of a session

Example: "The court adjourned"

• adjourn  15
• recess  8

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

Example: "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"

• dissolve  12

Come to an end

Example: "Their marriage dissolved"

• dissolve  12

Break or cause to break into pieces

Example: "The plate fragmented"

• fragment  14
• fragmentise  17
• fragmentize  26

• break  11
• come apart
• fall apart
• separate  10
• split up

• atomise  9
• atomize  18
• bray  9
• comminute  15
• • crunch  13
  • grind  7
  • mash  9
  • pound  8
  • sunder  7
  • sliver  9
  • splinter  10
  • rag  4
  • crumb  11
  • brecciate  15
  • crush  10
  • grate  6
  • grind  7
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Cause to separate

Example: "Break up kidney stones"

• disperse  11
• scatter  9

• change integrity

• backscatter  21

Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

• break down
• decompose  16

• separate  10

• digest  8
• dissociate  13

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