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Definition of 'break up'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) disperse, dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter
to cause to separate and go in different directions
"She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"

2. (verb) separate, part, split up, split, break, break up
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"

3. (verb) break up
come apart
"the group broke up"

4. (verb) crash, break up, break apart
break violently or noisily; smash;

5. (verb) interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
make a break in
"We interrupt the program for the following messages"

6. (verb) dissolve, resolve, break up
cause to go into a solution
"The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"

7. (verb) crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse
suffer a nervous breakdown

8. (verb) disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart
take apart into its constituent pieces

9. (verb) break, break up
destroy the completeness of a set of related items
"The book dealer would not break the set"

10. (verb) sever, break up
set or keep apart
"sever a relationship"

11. (verb) pick, break up
attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
"Pick open the ice"

12. (verb) calve, break up
release ice
"The icebergs and glaciers calve"

13. (verb) adjourn, recess, break up
close at the end of a session
"The court adjourned"

14. (verb) dissolve, break up
bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
"The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company"

15. (verb) dissolve, break up
come to an end
"Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"

16. (verb) break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
break or cause to break into pieces
"The plate fragmented"

17. (verb) break up, disperse, scatter
cause to separate
"break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"

18. (verb) decompose, break up, break down
separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

19. (verb) break up, crack up
laugh unrestrainedly

Definition of 'break up'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) break up
to end a relationship
Julia and Mike decided to break up.; to break up with sb

2.  break up
to separate into pieces
Break the cookies up into pieces.

3.  break up
to stop a fight
***He was trying to break up a fight.

4.  break up
(of school) to stop for a vacation
***What day do we break up?

Translation of 'break up'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to divide, separate or break into pieces He broke up the old furniture and burnt it; John and Mary broke up (= separated from each other) last week.
Afrikaans: opbreek, uitmekaar breek/	Arabic: يفترق، ينفصل، يفص	Bulgarian: разделям се с
Brazilian: romper	Czech: rozbít, rozlámat; rozejít	German: zerbrechen
Danish: bryde op; separere	Greek: διαλύω, χωρίζω	Spanish: romper, hacer pedazos, de
Estonian: tükkideks tegema, lahku m	Farsi: تکه تکه کردن؛ رابطه ای را	Finnish: erota, rikkoutua
French: casser, se séparer	Hebrew: לִשבּוֹר, לְפָרֵק	Hindi: टुकड़-टुकड़े करना
Croatian: prekinuti	Hungarian: darabokra tör	Indonesian: memecah-mecahkan, bercera
Icelandic: skipta upp; skilja; brjót	Italian: fare a pezzi; lasciarsi	Japanese: ばらばらにする
Korean: 분리하다	Lithuanian: sulaužyti, sudužti, išsis	Latvian: sadalīt daļās; izšķirt; i
Malay: berpisah	Dutch: uit elkaar halen, uit elk	Norwegian: brekke opp, slå i stykker
Polish: połamać, rozdrobnić, zerw	Persian: تکه تکه کردن؛ رابطه ای را	Pashto: ټوټی ټوټی کول، اړیکه له م
Portuguese: romper	Romanian: a sparge; a se despărţi	Russian: разбивать; расставаться
Slovak: rozbiť; rozísť sa	Slovenian: polomiti; ločiti se	Serbian: raskinuti
Swedish: hugga sönder (upp), bryta	Thai: ทำให้แตก	Turkish: parçalamak; bozuşmak
Taiwanese: 決裂	Ukrainian: розбивати; порвати з кимс	Urdu: ٹکڑے کرنا
Vietnamese: chia ra	Chinese: 决裂
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