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break up

English

  1. 🔊 laugh unrestrainedly
  2. 🔊 cause to separate
    “break up kidney stones”
  3. 🔊 break or cause to break into pieces
    “The plate fragmented”
  4. 🔊 come apart
    “the group broke up”
  5. 🔊 separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
  6. 🔊 come to an end
    “Their marriage dissolved”
  7. 🔊 bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
    “The decree officially dissolved the marriage”
  8. 🔊 release ice
    “The icebergs and glaciers calve”
  9. 🔊 attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
    “Pick open the ice”
  10. 🔊 set or keep apart
    “sever a relationship”
  11. 🔊 break violently or noisily
  12. 🔊 destroy the completeness of a set of related items
    “The book dealer would not break the set”
  13. 🔊 close at the end of a session
    “The court adjourned”
  14. 🔊 cause to go into a solution
    “The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water”
  15. 🔊 make a break in
    “We interrupt the program for the following messages”
  16. 🔊 take apart into its constituent pieces
  17. 🔊 suffer a nervous breakdown
  18. 🔊 to cause to separate and go in different directions
    “She waved her hand and scattered the crowds”
  19. 🔊 discontinue an association or relation
    “The business partners broke over a tax question”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 disolver to break up
  2. 🔊 quebrar to break up
  3. 🔊 romper to break up, terminate (a relationship, friendship etc.)
  4. 🔊 separar to break up, to split up, to separate (e.g. a relationship, a band, a fight)
  5. 🔊 separar to break up, to split up (a couple or group that the subject of the sentence is not a part of)
  6. 🔊 terminar to break up, to be done, to be through, to be over (a relationship - doesn't have to be romantic)

Similar words

crack up decompose break down disperse scatter fragment fragmentize fragmentise dissolve dissolve adjourn recess dissolve resolve interrupt disrupt cut off calve pick sever crash break apart break disassemble