break up


Meanings

  • the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
  • coming apart
  • to cause to separate and go in different directions;
  • discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;
  • come apart;
  • break violently or noisily; smash;
  • make a break in;
  • cause to go into a solution;
  • suffer a nervous breakdown
  • take apart into its constituent pieces
  • destroy the completeness of a set of related items;
  • set or keep apart;
  • attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example;
  • release ice;
  • close at the end of a session;
  • bring the association of to an end or cause to break up;
  • come to an end;
  • break or cause to break into pieces;
  • cause to separate;
    • "break up kidney stones"
  • separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
  • laugh unrestrainedly