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break up
English
- 🔊 laugh unrestrainedly
- 🔊 cause to separate“break up kidney stones”
- 🔊 break or cause to break into pieces“The plate fragmented”
- 🔊 come apart“the group broke up”
- 🔊 separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- 🔊 come to an end“Their marriage dissolved”
- 🔊 bring the association of to an end or cause to break up“The decree officially dissolved the marriage”
- 🔊 release ice“The icebergs and glaciers calve”
- 🔊 attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example“Pick open the ice”
- 🔊 set or keep apart“sever a relationship”
- 🔊 break violently or noisily
- 🔊 destroy the completeness of a set of related items“The book dealer would not break the set”
- 🔊 close at the end of a session“The court adjourned”
- 🔊 cause to go into a solution“The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water”
- 🔊 make a break in“We interrupt the program for the following messages”
- 🔊 take apart into its constituent pieces
- 🔊 suffer a nervous breakdown
- 🔊 to cause to separate and go in different directions“She waved her hand and scattered the crowds”
- 🔊 discontinue an association or relation“The business partners broke over a tax question”
Spanish
- 🔊 disolver to break up
- 🔊 quebrar to break up
- 🔊 romper to break up, terminate (a relationship, friendship etc.)
- 🔊 separar to break up, to split up, to separate (e.g. a relationship, a band, a fight)
- 🔊 separar to break up, to split up (a couple or group that the subject of the sentence is not a part of)
- 🔊 terminar to break up, to be done, to be through, to be over (a relationship - doesn't have to be romantic)