Definition of 'break up'
Verb
- to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
Synonyms: disperse dissipate dispel scatter - discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
Synonyms: separate part split up split break - come apart; "the group broke up"
- break violently or noisily; smash;
Synonyms: crash break apart - make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
Synonyms: interrupt disrupt cut off - cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
Synonyms: dissolve resolve - suffer a nervous breakdown
Synonyms: crack up crack crock up collapse - take apart into its constituent pieces
Synonyms: disassemble dismantle take apart break apart
Antonyms: assemble piece put together set up tack tack together - destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set"
Synonyms: break - set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
Synonyms: sever - attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"
Synonyms: pick - release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve"
Synonyms: calve - close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"
Synonyms: adjourn recess - bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"
Synonyms: dissolve - come to an end; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"
Synonyms: dissolve - break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"
Synonyms: fragment fragmentize fragmentise - cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"
Synonyms: disperse scatter - separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
Synonyms: decompose break down - laugh unrestrainedly
Synonyms: crack up
