单词 | break up |
释义 | break up (once / 314 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4v 5v 6v 7v WORD FAMILY break up: breaking up, breaks up, broke up, broken up USAGE EXAMPLESAn earlier episode placed Paper Boi on a fictional news panel show with parody commercials to break up the show’s segments. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) It also claimed success in testing the re-entry technology that allows a long-range missile to return to the Earth’s atmosphere without breaking up. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) He explained that Wiggins was sent a drug called fluimucil, designed to break up mucus in the lungs, but offered no further proof. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v break or cause to break into pieces Syn|Hypo|Hyper fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize atomise, atomize break up into small particles bray, comminute, crunch, grind, mashreduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading poundbreak down and crush by beating, as with a pestle sunderbreak apart or in two, using violence sliver, splinterbreak up into splinters or slivers ragbreak into lumps before sorting crumbbreak into crumbs brecciatebreak into breccia crushbreak into small pieces grate, grindmake a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together gnashgrind together, of teeth pulpreduce to pulp pestlegrind, mash or pulverize in a mortar millgrind with a mill bruisebreak up into small pieces for food preparation chew, jaw, manducate, masticatechew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up become separated into pieces or fragments 2v come apart the group broke up Hypo|Hyper disband, dissolve stop functioning or cohering as a unit part, separate, split go one's own way; move apart 3v take apart into its constituent pieces Syn|Ant|Hyper break apart, disassemble, dismantle, take apart assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together create by putting components or members together destroy, destruct do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of 4v separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts Syn|Hypo|Hyper break down, decompose digest soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture dissociateto undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms crackreduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking separate divide into components or constituents 5v cause to separate break up kidney stones Syn|Hypo|Hyper disperse, scatter backscatter scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes change integrity change in physical make-up 6v to cause to separate and go in different directions Syn|Hypo|Hyper dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter disband cause to break up or cease to function divide, separate make a division or separation 7v break violently or noisily; smash; Syn|Hyper break apart, crash crash cause to crash disintegrate break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity 8v attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example Syn|Hyper pick pierce cut or make a way through 9v release ice 2Syn|Hyper calve divide, part, separate come apart 1v discontinue an association or relation; go different ways Syn|Hypo break, part, separate, split, split up give the axe, give the bounce, give the gate terminate a relationship abruptly break apart, disunifybreak up or separate disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorcepart; cease or break association with break withend a relationship divorce, split upget a divorce; formally terminate a marriage break away, secede, splinterwithdraw from an organization or communion break, break awayinterrupt a continued activity 2v bring the association of to an end or cause to break up Syn|Hyper dissolve dismiss, dissolve declare void end, terminate bring to an end or halt 3v come to an end 3The tobacco monopoly broke up Syn|Hyper dissolve end, terminate bring to an end or halt 1v make a break in Syn|Hypo|Hyper cut off, disrupt, interrupt cut, cut off cease, stop punctuateinterrupt periodically breakinterrupt the flow of current in put aside, put awayturn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily break, intermit, pausecease an action temporarily barge in, break in, butt in, chime in, chisel in, cut in, put inbreak into a conversation burst in on, burst uponspring suddenly hecklechallenge aggressively come in, inject, interject, interpose, put in, throw into insert between other elements block, jaminterfere with or prevent the reception of signals stop, stop overinterrupt a trip take off, take time offtake time off from work; stop working temporarily disrupt, interruptinterfere in someone else's activity breathe, catch one's breath, rest, take a breathertake a short break from one's activities in order to relax take fivetake a break for five minutes take tentake a ten minute break barrage jamjam an entire frequency spectrum point jamjam a narrow band of frequencies spot jamjam a single frequency blanket jamjam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications callmake a stop in a harbour lay over, stop overinterrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight break, break off, discontinue, stop prevent completion 2v close at the end of a session 4Syn|Hyper adjourn, recess cease, end, finish, stop, terminate have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical v cause to go into a solution 5Syn|Hypo|Hyper dissolve, resolve melt, melt down, run reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating cutdissolve by breaking down the fat of fusemake liquid or plastic by heating render, trymelt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities change integrity change in physical make-up 1v set or keep apart Syn|Hyper sever discerp, lop, sever cut off from a whole disunite, divide, part, separate force, take, or pull apart 2v destroy the completeness of a set of related items 6Syn|Hyper break break exchange for smaller units of money alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation v laugh unrestrainedly 7Syn|Hyper crack up express joy, express mirth, laugh produce laughter v suffer a nervous breakdown Syn|Hyper collapse, crack, crack up, crock up get, have, suffer, sustain undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) |
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