English to English
verb
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
She waved her hand and scattered the crowds.
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- 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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- come apart
The group broke up.
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- break violently or noisily; smash
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- make a break in
We interrupt the program for the following messages.
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- cause to go into a solution
The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water.
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- suffer a nervous breakdown
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- take apart into its constituent pieces
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- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
The book dealer would not break the set.
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- set or keep apart
Sever a relationship.
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- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
Pick open the ice.
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- release ice
The icebergs and glaciers calve.
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- close at the end of a session
The court adjourned.
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- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
The decree officially dissolved the marriage.
The judge dissolved the tobacco company.
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- come to an end
Their marriage dissolved.
The tobacco monopoly broke up.
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- break or cause to break into pieces
The plate fragmented.
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- cause to separate
Break up kidney stones.
Disperse particles.
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- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
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- laugh unrestrainedly
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