释义 |
Noun: breakup 'breyk`úp- The termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
- dissolution - Coming apart
- separation, detachment Verb: break up- To cause to separate and go in different directions
- disperse, dissipate, dispel, scatter - Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate, part, split up, split, break - Come apart
"the group broke up" - Break violently or noisily; smash;
- crash, break apart - Make a break in
- interrupt, disrupt, cut off - Cause to go into a solution
- dissolve, resolve - Suffer a nervous breakdown
- crack up, crack, crock up, collapse - Take apart into its constituent pieces
- disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break apart - Destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- break - Set or keep apart
- sever - Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pick - Release ice
- calve - Close at the end of a session
- adjourn, recess - Bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- dissolve - Come to an end
"The tobacco monopoly broke up" - dissolve - Break or cause to break into pieces
- fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise [Brit] - Cause to separate
"break up kidney stones" - disperse, scatter - Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- decompose, break down - Laugh unrestrainedly
- crack up
Derived forms: breakups, broken up, broke up, breaks up, breaking up See also: break Type of: alter, alteration, break, break off, cease, change, change integrity, come apart, conclusion, destroy, destruct, discontinue, disintegrate, disunite, divide, end, ending, express joy, express mirth, fall apart, finish, get, have, laugh, modification, modify, part, pierce, separate, spifflicate, spiflicate, split, split up, stop, suffer, sustain, terminate, termination Encyclopedia: Break up Breakup |