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Verb break up has 19 senses
- disperse, dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter - to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
--1 is one way to separate, divide
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Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- 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"
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- break up - come apart; "the group broke up"
--3 is one way to separate, part, split
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- crash, break up, break apart - break violently or noisily; smash;
--4 is one way to disintegrate
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Something is ----ing PP
- interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off - make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
--5 is one way to break, break off, discontinue, stop
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- 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"
--6 is one way to change integrity
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- crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse - suffer a nervous breakdown
--7 is one way to suffer, sustain, have, get
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- disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart - take apart into its constituent pieces
--8 is one way to destroy, destruct
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- break, break up - destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set"
--9 is one way to change, alter, modify
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- sever, break up - set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
--10 is one way to separate, disunite, divide, part
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- pick, break up - attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"
--11 is one way to pierce
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- calve, break up - release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve"
--12 is one way to separate, divide, part
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- adjourn, recess, break up - close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"
--13 is one way to end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
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- 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"
--14 is one way to end, terminate
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Something ----s something
- dissolve, break up - come to an end; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up"
--15 is one way to end, terminate
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- break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise - break or cause to break into pieces; "The plate fragmented"
--16 is one way to break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
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Somebody ----s somebody of something
- break up, disperse, scatter - cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"
--17 is one way to change integrity
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- decompose, break up, break down - separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
--18 is one way to separate
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Something ----s something
- break up, crack up - laugh unrestrainedly
--19 is one way to laugh, express joy, express mirth
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